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ACOUSTICAL Effects in Wireless, Captain J. Robinson, 619
Aerial Navigation, Radio Apparatus, in, 619
Aerial for Wave Lengths below 400 m., Condenser Type, 669
Agricultural Possibilities of French West Africa, Scheme for Utilisation of Niger Floods, 669
Agricultural Tractor Trials. Name of Prize Winner, 485
Air Navigation, Anglo-French Agreement, 485
“ Alcobrons,” Metal Alloy, 97
Alcohol Fuel, Experimental Consignment of “ Natalite ” from South Africa, 543
Alcohol for Power Purposes, Empire Motor .
  Fuels Committee Report, 265
Alexandria, Proposed Dredging of Great Pass, I 643
Aliens, Former Enemy, Excluded from Manufacture of Dyestuffs in the United Kingdom, 433
Aluminium and its Alloys, Protection from
  Corrosion, Herr L. von Grotthaus, 643
American Air Service Estimates, 207
American Bricklayers’ Increase in Pay and
  Decrease in Work, 43
Anglo-Swedish Train Ferry Proposed, 13
Apprenticeship Scheme for Queensland, 400
Aqueduct from Naples to Taranto, 321
Argentina State Oilfields Production, Plans for Intensifying, 97
Argentine Company for Shipbuilding for Trade with Europe, 7 0
Asbestos Exports from Quebec, 619
Asbestos Industry in Quebec, 480
Asphalt Macadam, Proper Method of. Laying, 237
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
  INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY :
Questions for Special Committee. Glassware Origin, &c., 595
  INSTITUTE, CONCRETE :
Building Exhibition, Luncheon at Olympia, 428
    Land Subsidence, Lawson S. White, 643
Programme in connection with Inter national Building Trades’ Exhibition, 364
  INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
    Annual Meeting and Programme, 335
Joint Discussion on Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, 162
  INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERS :
Lloyd’s Register Scholarships and Essay Competitions, 162
    Lubrication of Internal Combustion
      Engines, 331
Propellers and Question of Erosion, A. T. Quelch, 485
  INSTITUTE OF METALS :
Autumn Return Visit to Birmingham, 417 LONDON LOCAL SECTION :
Formation, Papers, 60:40 Brass, O. W. Ellis; Aluminium Alloys, S. L. Archbutt; Refractories, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 237
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
  INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT :
Manchester Congress, Preliminary Announcement, 24
Some Advantages of Control as Applied to Traffic on Railways, Arthur Watson, 485
INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS : Informal Meetings at Birmingham, 357 Pneumatic Motor Tires, Design and Manufacture of, Colin Macbeth, 179
Recent Developments in Transmission, Captain S. Bramley-Moore, 97
  INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
Annual General Meeting, Result of Ballot for Election of Officers, 558
    Awards for Papers, 493
Engineering Conference, Series, Renewal, 530
“ James Forrest ” Lecture, Date Fixed, 530 Kelvin Medal Presentation to Dr. Unwin, 458
    Students’ Dinner, 493
  INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
Design of a Large Power Station, Some Notes on, Discussion, 191
Election of New Officers and Members of Council, 632
Heating of Buried Cables, Investigation and Report, 43
    Informal Meeting, 191
Proposed Examination for Associate Membership, 83
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
  INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
    (continued) :
Redecorating and Re-opening of Building, 433
Removal of the Institution to Own Building, 549
    Summer Meeting in Scotland, 232, 338
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :
    Present Position of the Marine Diesel
      Engine, James Richardson, 237
  INSTITUTION OF GAS ENGINEERS :
    Postponement of Annual Meeting, 527
  INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
    Annual Dinner, 605
INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS (LONDON) :
    •Election of Officers, 252
INSTITUTION . OF MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY ENGINEERS :
Annual General Meeting and Conference, Programme, 552
    Programme for Dorking Meeting, 372
  INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
Annual Meeting and Dinner, 135, 215 ; Programme, 215
    Awards for Papers, 71
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGI¬NEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS :
Invitation from Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders In Scotland to hold Summer Meeting in Glasgow, 249
Scholarship Offered to Graduates, 293
INSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS : Officers Elected for Session 1921-1922, 361
INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGI¬NEERS :
Changes Among Officials, 265
Magnetic Storms : Effects upon Railway Signal and Telegraph Apparatus, 513
Suggestions for Papers, Premium Offer Renewal, 485
INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
Annual Meeting— Election of Officers, 493 General Meetings, Elections, 277, 389, 513, 632
Presents to the Institution, Acknowledge¬ment, 632
Programme of Lectures, 277, 357, 361, 584
INSTITUTION OF WATER ENGINEERS :
Summer General Meeting at Hull, Pro¬gramme, 552
SOCIETY, AMERICAN, FOR TESTING MAT¬ERIALS :
Annual Meeting and Programme, 581
Softening Point of Fire-clay Brick, 123
SOCIETY, ASSOCIATED, OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGI¬NEERS :
Removal of Head Offices to London, 651
SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY :
Oils Used in Transformers, Mr. Archbutt on, 321
Rudge-Whitworth, Limited, 321
SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS (CRYSTAL PALACE ENGINEERING SOCIETY) :
Wilson Premium Award, C. W. Carter, 440
List of Papers Read during Session, 440
SOCIETY, FARADAY :
General Discussion on Physico-Chemical Problems relating to the Soil, 454, 552 Joint Meeting and Discussion on Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, 162—see also Miscellaneous Index
SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL ENGINEERING :
Annual Dinner, 132
SOCIETY, PHYSICAL :
Frequency Measurement, Heterodyne Method, Messrs. B. S. Smith and Partridge, 459
SOCIETY, ROYAL AERONAUTICAL :
Council for 1921, 413
Pilcher Memorial Prize for Students, 581
SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
Mineral Resources of China, Prize Offered, 135
Oil-burning Methods and Results in Metallurgical Industries, A. F. Baillie 151
Prize in Memory of Mr. Peter Le Neve Foster, 135
AUSTRIAN Imports and Exports, 349
Automatic Coupling for Railway Vehicles—see Railways
A.utomobile Association Fuel Supply Stations, 349
Automobile Association Installation of Tele¬phone Sentry Boxes for Night Use, 265
Automobile Standardisation, 642
Aviation in Central Queensland, Linking up of Distant Centres, 569
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BALL Bearings for Heavy Horse-drawn Vehicles, Tests by Swedish Artillery, 595
Bamboo for Papermaking, 274, 321
Belfast, Annual Staff Dinner of Messrs. Musgrave and Co., 305
Belfast, Proposed Grain Silo for, 151
Belgian Eight-hour Day and Forty-eight-hour Week, 543
Belt Speed and Power Calculator, J. Tullis and
  Son, Limited, 109
Belt Stretcher, C. M. Conder, 655
Belts, Leather, How to Use, Buck and Hickman, Limited, 605
Benzol for Motor Fuel, 211
Bicycles from Germany Much Cheaper than English-made, 265
Bilbao Company Exchanges Construction of Ships for Marine Motors and Railway Material, 43
Blast-furnaces—see Iron
Bolivian Demand for Grinding and Crushing Machinery, 619
Bombay and Ahmedabad Telephone Service, 485
Bombay Reclamation Works, 405
Boonzaier T.U.V. Automatic Coupling, 286
Borax, Largest Known Deposit Discovered in Nevada, 619
Bricks, Sand Lime, Manufacture, in Federated
  Malay States, 293
Brisbane Sewerage System, 405
Bristol University Automobile Laboratory, 151
British Columbia, Land Clearing and Projected
  Stump-using Industry, 377
British Columbia, Mineral Production, 179
British Engineering Standards Association,
Specification for Benzol for Motor Fuel, 211
British Engineers’ Association, Annual Meeting, 552
British Honduras, Development of, Irrigation
for Rice Growing, Needs of the Colony, 237
British and South American Merchandise and Produce Exhibition, 97
B.T.H. Willesden Works Forinen’s Dinner, 58
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CADMIUM Electro-plating, 669
Calcite Spar, Deposit of, near Yokecliffe Lead Mines, 433.
Canada’s Metal and Mineral Production, 179, 377
Canadian Deep Waterways Association, Speeding-up of Public Works Construction Urgently Demanded, 71
Canal between Bruges and Roulers, 207
Canals in India, Proposed Electrical Connection, 293
Canals, Moss and Plant Growth, Methods for Destruction of, 151
Carbon Monoxide Detection Instrument, 433
Carbonisation of Coal—see Coal
Cardiff Technical College, Class for Rolling Stock Construction, 88
Catalogues for Amsterdam, 249
Catalogues for Czernowitz, Roumania, 361
Catalogues for Jerusalem, 385
Catalogues for Madagascar, 650
Catskill Aqueduct, Steel Pipe Lining Protection, 513
Census of Production Abandoned, 433
Charring Useless as a Wood Preservative, 349
Chemical Industry in Germany, 207
Chimney Down Draught Trouble, 265
China, Good Roads Movement, 321
China, Important Road-building Scheme Projected, 643
China as a Market for Agricultural Implements, 513
China, Various Schemes for Important Public Works in, 643
Chinese and American Engineers’ Association Organised in Peking, 43
Chinese Glass Works, 207
Circulating Water, Cooling in Canals, 71
Clip, New Type, for Rubber Hose with Metal Fittings, Brown Brothers, Limited, 83
Clock, Automatic and Controlling, 405
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES:
  Anthracite Coalfield of British Columbia, 669
Atritor Coal Dryer and Pulveriser, 676 Briquetting of Lignite Coal, Successful Plant in Saskatchewan, 377
  Briquetting Plants in German Works, 569
British Columbia to Abolish Naked Lights in Coal Mines, 459
  Canada, Coal Resources of, 459
Canadian Steamers Exchanging Oil for Coal Fuel Equipment, 43
Carbon Dioxide in Coal, Determination of, 215
Carbonisation of Coal, Low Temperature, Advantages of Smokeless Fuel, Major Armstrong’s Lecture, 43
Coal, Coke and Patent Fuel Export, Withdrawal of Restrictions, 43
Coal Transmission by Water Pressure, American Project, 13
Coaling Plant for Delagoa Bay, Tests, 485
  Coke as a Boiler Fuel, 361
  Coke for Metallurgical Purposes, 13
  Denton, Valuable Coal Seam Discovery at, 97
Dutch Coal Districts and Waterways, Projected Schemes, 293
Electrical Coal-cutting Machines Unsafe at Present in New South Wales Colliery, 377
Export of British Coal, and Prices, 43
Froth Flotation Process for Coal Purification, 179
Japan, Average Coal Output, 237
Japan Exports Coal to New Zealand, 23
Kentish Coal, Calorific Value Compared with Yorkshire, 151
Kwantung’s Coal Resources, Development by British Syndicate, 377
  Liquid Air for Coal Blasting, 265
Natal Coals, Average Heating Value, 459
Newfoundland Coal Area Development, 123
Rhenish Brown Coal as Fuel in Gas Producers, 179
Richards Bay, North of Durban, as Coaling Port, 237
South Africa, Coal Mining Output in, 13
South Wales Coal, Best Seams Worked Out, 97
Storage Battery Locomotives in American Coal Mines, 207
Tippler, Coal, for Delagoa Bay, Satisfactory Test, 595
Transport of Coal, Suggestions for Reducing Heavy Cost, 543
COAST Erosion on the South-east of Ireland, 409
Colorado River, New Bridge over, 265
Commercial Motor Users’ Association :
Annual Luncheon, Roads and Road Users, Sir Eric Geddes, 385
  Annual Parade of Motor Vehicles, 377
  London Commercial Motor Parade, 338
Compressed Air “ Pistols ” for Various Uses, 123
Concrete Arch Bridges, 237
Concrete Arch, Longest in Canada, 513
Concrete Bored by Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe, 595
Concrete Bricks, Sand, Lime and other, H. O.
  Weller, 459
Concrete, Fusing Point of, 513
Concrete Mixing, Tests in America, 595
Concrete, Oils and Fats Attack on, 71
Concrete Piles, Hollow, Novel Process of Manufacture, 377
Concrete Pipes for Water under High Pressure, 669
Concrete, Reinforced, Wireless Tower, 660ft.
  High, 595
Concrete Saving but Increased Cost of Form- work, 321
Concrete Structures, Joints in, System for
  Making Water-tight, 513
Continental Trunk Telephone Cable, 679
Cooling Tower, Largest, in the World, 293
Copper, Free Exportation from Mexico, 207
Corrosion, Internal, of Hot Water Pipes, F. N.
  Speller, 513
Corrosion in Steel Works Chimneys, Failure of Attempted Remedy, 595
Corundum Deposits of the Transvaal, 71
Cotton Cultivation in Argentina, 123
Creosoted Wood-stave Pipes, Long Duration of, 237
Creosoting of Wooden Sleepers, New Process
  Tried in America, 569
Crinan Canal, 361
Crossley Brothers’ Staff Dinner, 191
Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers
Read during Session, 440 ; Wilson Premium Award, 440
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ECONOMIC Position in Engineering Industries, 357
Egypt and the Sudan, Public Works and Finance, 619
Eight-storey Building Moved 40ft., 569
Einstein Theory and the Velocity of Light, 669
ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
A.E.G. and Linke-Hoffmann Works, 330
Application of Electrical Machinery to
    Increase Mine Production, T. R. Haig, 619 Arc-fused Steel, Unsatisfactory in Result, 13 Arc Welding of Aluminium, F. J. Heyes, 595 Artificial Silk for Cable Requirements, 643 Ash Disposal in German Power Houses, 123 Birmingham and Increased Electrical Supply,
    The Corporation and the Traders, 207
Boston and Washington Districts, Superpower Station and Expected Increased Demand, 321
British Electrical and Allied Industries’ Research Association, 669
Capetown New Power House, Provision for Great Expansion of Electrical Demand, 321
Chile, Natural Water Power Resources for Generating Electricity for Certain Towns, 273, 321
Coal-cutting Machines and Question of Safety in New South Wales Mine, 377
Cotton Mills Electrification in Blackburn, 179
Defective Contact Lift Fatality, 97
Douro, Proposed Utilisation of Falls of, for Railway Electrification, 377
Earthing in Electrical Practice, Indiscriminate Use of Water Pipes, 151
Electric Power Utilisation in Modern Gasworks, 265.
Electric versus Combustion Furnaces for Low Temperatures, F. W. Brooke and G. P. Mills, 123
Electrical Research Association and Insulating Materials, 513
Electricity Commissioners and Lancashire Schemes, 237
  Electrostatic Condensers, V. E. Goodwin, 485 Federated Malay States Electricity Board, 643
Flashlight, Hand, New Type of, 123
Fuses, H. W. Kefford, 123
Gas-filled Electric Lamps, Increased Demand, 43
German Electric Cable Industry’s Bad Trade, 265
Germany’s Reduced Coal Supply and Increased Demand for Electric Power, 265
Gosport and Delayed Power Supply, 543
Greenwich Power Station Boilers Equipped for Oil-burning in View of Coal Shortage, 669
Grimsby Electrical Extensions Scheme, 13
Hereford’s Proposed Extension of Area of Electricity Supply, 376
High-current Tests and High-tension Switchgear, Philip Torchio, 485
High Power Factor on Consumers’ Circuits, Proposed Tariff, 569
Houses, All-electric, for Power Station Employees, near Stockton-on-Tees, 97
  Inductance Coils, American Research, 211 Ipswich Savings by Substitution of Electric Vehicles for Horses and Carts, 369
Lamps in Series on Traction Circuits, Device for Quick Discovery of Damage, 405
Leicester’s New 10,000-kilowatt Generator, 513
  Liverpool Docks Electrification Progress, 13 Magnetos for the Air Service, Superiority of
British Design, Captain A. B. Burgoyne, 485
Merchant Ships, Electric Auxiliaries for, C, H. Giroux, 293
Mersey Power Station for Supply at Runcorn and at Ellesmere Port, 485
Mice and Electric Bells, 265
Motor for Use in Rooms where Explosive Mixtures may be Present, 179
Neon Lamp, New Type, 321
Netherlands East Indies, Lighting and Power Supply Transformation, 97
Newark Electricity Scheme, Expense Objected to, 595
New Zealand, Ashburton County Electrical Scheme, 349
North Wales and Supply of Electricity, Improvement Scheme, 71
North-West Midlands District Proposals, Time Extension for Objectors, 349
Omnibus, Edison, New Type, 123
Paper-making and Scanty Use of Electrical Power, 405
Phase Sequence Indicating Device, 619
Photometer, Action of Special Device, A. H.
  Compton, 71
Power Pressure Increase in Southern California, 543
Preston’s Supply Chiefly Generated by Steam from the Refuse Destructor, 619
Pukow Projected Electric Generating Plant, 669
Punjab, Development of Schemes for Electrical Power, 71
Punjab Hydro-electric Scheme for Canal Use, 293
Railway Station Lighting, New System Introduced on the London and South- Western Railway, 569
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :
Rodditch Electric Supply and Coal Shortage, 669
    Repelling Arc Furnace, Von Schlegel, 13
Resistance, Electrical, of the Human Body, Measurements, 123
Rivet Heater, Electric, New Type, 459 Salford Electrical Extensions Scheme, 13
San Joaquin River, California, Increased Power from, 293
Separators in Secondary Batteries, Improved Type Invented, T. A. Willard, 349
Ships, Electric Drive for, H. K. Barrows, 237
Simla Roads, Experiment with Electric Vehicles, 263
Smelting Works, Electric, for South Africa, 293
Spain, Distribution of Energy, National System Proposed, 459
Static Electricity Trouble in Textile Factory, 123
Steam-electric Plant, 125,000,000-kilowatt in Victoria, 265
Storage Batteries, Creeping of Electrolyte, 433
Story of the Induction Motor, G. B. Lamme, 349
Supply Development Schemes, Increase, 123 Swiss Electrical Industry Prosperity, 123 Sydney, N.S.W., Controversy over New
    ~ Turbo-alternator, 265
Temperature of Rotors belonging to Alternators, Instrument for Measuring, 265
Thermostat, New Type, for Control of Electric Ovens and Heating Appliances, 293
Thermostatic Control in connection with Electric Heating, G. Wilkinson, 433
Thomson-Houston and General Electric Companies Combination in Spain, 151
Tientsin and Pekin Electrical Company Proposed, 643
Tokyo, Reported Amalgamation of Electric Power Works, 377
Turbo - generator, 10,000 - Kilowatt, for Uruguay, Varying Tenders for, 485
United States Increased Production of Electric Lamps, 377
Wallasey Power Station Breakdowns, Recommendations, 459
West Bromwich Electrical Plant Extensions, 179
West Riding Electricity District Meeting, 459
Worcester Joint Electricity District Formed, 43
Worksop, Proposed Extension of Supply, 543
Wye, and Electrical Energy, Application to. Commissioners, 543
Zinc Ore Treatment by Novel Electric Resistance Furnace, Professor C. H. Fulton, 13
ELECTRO-PLATING, Cadmium, 669
Engine, Gas, Exhaust, Utilisation of, 605
Ex-British Westinghouse Association, Annual
  Reunion, 361
Exhausts from Two-cycle and Four-cycle Engines, Temperature of, 643
EXHIBITIONS :
Agricultural Machinery Exhibition at Brussels, 151
Agricultural Machinery Exhibition and Motor Tractor Trials in Spain, 86
Annual Agricultural Exhibition at Tours, 433 Basle, Fifth Swiss Trade Exhibition at, 349 Basle International Automobile Exhibition, 151
Efficiency Exhibition, Work of ex-Service Men, 179
Industrial and Agricultural Fair in Lemberg, 669
International Architecture Exhibition at
    Ghent, 43
International Building Trades’ Exhibition at Olympia, 364
International Centenary Exhibition at Lima, 569
Milan Sample Fair, 274
National Industrial Fair at Gothenburg, 643
  Netherlands East Indies Fair in Java, 83
  Orient Fair in Czecho-Slovakia, 440
Rangoon, Permanent Exhibitions to be Opened, 293
EXPLOSION of Large Cast Iron Drying Cylinder, 179
Ex-Service Men, Disabled, Training of, 179
Eye Magnet, Giant, for Metal Removal from Injured Eyes, 123
Fuel Consumption Trials at Le Mans, 619
Fuel Economy of Motor Cars, Tests, 71
Fuel Economy Trial, Motor Car, 274
Fuel for Motor Ship Free of Charge, 377
Fuel Oil, Fall in Price, 513
Furnace Collapse, Remarkable, on s.s. Baltriger, 619
G
GAS for Domestic Use, Dangerous Percentage of Carbon Monoxide, 207
Gas Engine Exhaust, Utilisation of, 605
Gas-filled Electric Lamps, Increased Demand, 43
Gas Fittings Manufacture, Comparatively Prosperous Condition of, 543
Gas Undertakings, Coal and Gas Statistics, 433
Genoa, Port Extension on Large Scale Projected, 643
Geological Survey of Western Australia, Publications to Aid Miners, 513
German Boiler Explosions Increase, 97
German Cement for South Africa at Lower
  PricesthanBritish, Belgian and Pretorian, 237
German Competition in Hoisting Tackle Manufacture, 595
Germans and the British Magneto Trade, Unfair Competition, 97
Glass, Effect on, of Radium, X-rays, &c., J. R.
  Clarke, 595
Glass Factory on Island of Madeira, 485
Gold Belt, Rich, Discovery in Nigeria, 643
Gold and Other Metals Output of Ontario, 13 Gramophones, Small Motors for Driving, 459 Greenwich Observatory, Repair of Instruments and Installation of New, 663
H
HANDLING Small Locomotives, Booklet by
  Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., 389
Harbour Improvement at Belize, 543
Havre-Paris Pipe Line Progress, 123
Highest Monolithic Structure Yet Built, 595
Hong Kong University, 191
Hot Water Centres during Fuel Shortage in
  Birmingham, 569
Hydro-electric Plant Nearing Completion in Ontario, 513
Hydro-electric Possibilities of Queensland, 178
Hydro-electrical Development in Java, 13
Hydro-electrical Development in New Zealand,
  13
I
ICE-CLEARING from Water Power Plants and Effect of Use of Explosives, 349
Iceland, Proposals for Railway and Electric Development, 97
Imports into Sweden from Germany, 459
Indian Construction Company Floated at Bombay, 123
Industrial Administration, Institute of, First Annual Dinner, 277
Industrial Welfare Society Conference, 207
Insulation of Sound, Tests of Variously Built Walls, Professor F. R. Watson, 491
Ipswich and Dust Collection, 151
IRON AND STEEL :
Amalgamation of Steel Companies in France? 405
Arc-fused Steel, Unfavourable Result of Examination by American Bureau of Standards, 13
  Austrian Duties on Iron and Steel, 595
Blast-furnace, New, Erected at Huangshi- kang, China, 43
Blast-furnaces in Lorraine, Diminished Number Working, 293
Bombay Manufacture of High Quality Steels, 669
Brazilian Government and Electrical Supply
  * for Iron and Steel Making, 669
British Columbia, Government Agreement with Steel Company, 405
British Columbia, Projected Large Steel Works, 377
Burma, Iron Ore Find, 207
Chilean Concession to German Firm for Iron and Steel Industry, 207
Combination of Large Companies in Japan, 43 Deoxidisers in Steel Making, G. F. Comstock, 643
Eastern Finland, Discovery of Iron Pyrites Deposit, 513
Electric Furnace for Iron Castings, 669
Ferro-chrome Alloy, Cheap and Rustless, by Electrical Production, 71
International Nickel Company’s 12,000,000- Dollar Plant, 97
Iron Foundry in Chungking, China, Projected, 433
Italian Inquiry into Iron and Steel Industry, 265
Krupp Works Rustless Steel, 237
Magnetic Iron Ore Discovery on the Russo- Ukrainian Border, 459
Magnetic Method of Finding Bubbles and Cracks in Steel, 377
Metallography of Low-carbon Steel, James Mitchell, 349
National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Annual Meeting and Appointments, 344
Output of Iron and Steel in the United Kingdom, Great Drop, 669
    “ Rustless ” Steel Again, 71, 97
- Steel Analysis, Strength of Solutions Used in Electrolytic Method of Determining, 485 Steel Demand and Use of Old Material, 669 Steel Ingot Production in the United States, Reduced Output, 595
Steel for Valves of Oil Engines, 179
Steel Works in America Compared with British, R. P. Smith, 543
Steel Works at Port Kemble, JSTew South Wales, 669
Swedish Ironworks’ Association Report, 151
J
JAMES Keith and Blackman Company, Limited, Dinner to Directors and Management, 361
Japan, Telephone Service Extension and Improvement, 260
Japanese Government to Develop Coal Mining and Other Industries, 293
Japanese High-power Wireless Station near Peking, 467
Japanese Patent Laws, Revision of, 513
Java, Deepening of Sourabaya Harbour, 377
K
KEITH, James, and Blackman Company, Dinner to Directors and Management, 361
Kelvin Medal, 1920, 135
Kelvin Medal Presentation to Dr. Unwin, 458
Kenya Colony, East Africa, Projected Sugar Plantation, 237
King George’s Dock,-Calcutta, Work Begun, 151
L
LABOUR Ministry Appointment, 13
Laichikok, Hong Kong, Coaling Wharf and Oil- bunkering Appliances, 377
Lamps, Electric—see Electrical Matters
Lamps, Large Incandescent, in the United States, 123
Lamps for Use on Board Ship, W. J. Jones, 543
Lead Caulking Recovered by Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe, 619
Leather Belts, How to Use, Buck and Hickman, Limited, 605
Lifting Magnets for Handling Metal Sheets, Major F. A. Hooper, 207
Light Measurement by Portable Meter, 97
Lightning Arresters, Information Sought as to Defective Operation, 543
Lightning Arresters, Investigation, 97
Liquid Air in Vacuum Flasks, Losses, &c., Professor H. Briggs, 433
Lloyd’s Register in Holland, 413
Lloyd’s Register Scholarships and Essay Competitions, 162
Lock, Patent, to Eclipse the “ Yale,” 459
Locomotives, Small, Booklet on Handling, Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., Limited, 389
Locust Destruction by Liquid Fire, 527
Lubricating Oil in Constant Service when Continuously Purified, 377
M
MACHINE Tool Trades’ Association, Annual Meeting and Dinner, 55
Machine Tools in Australia, Large British Plant Suggested, 97
Magnesite Production in the United States, 543
Magnetos for Internal Combustion Engines,
  A. P. Young, 179
Manchuria, Establishment of Proper Communications Advised, 513
Manchuria, Harbour Construction on South Coast of, 513
Manufacturing Processes, Dangerous, List Extended by Home Secretary, 43
Metal and Mineral Output of South Australia, Increased Value of, 433
Metals, Failure of, under Internal or Prolonged Stress, Joint Discussion, 162—see also Associations
Metals in Germany, Fall in Prices, 109
Metric System Obligatory in Japan, 459
Mica Deposits of Lomagundi, South Africa, 71
Microscale, Swedish Instrument for Minute Weighing, 265
Microscope, A Works, 471
Mine Managers and Surveyors, Postponement of Examinations for Certificates, 543
Mine Warnings by Evil-smelling Substance, 293
Mineral Output of New South Wales, Increased
  Value of, 321
Mineral Resources of Tsinanfu, Shantung, 643
Miners’ Lamps, Safety, &c., Committee Reappointed, 123
Miners’ Phthisis in Gold Mines, C. J. Gray, 459
Mining Record in South Africa, 619
Mint at Shanghai will be Largest in the World, 377
Molybdenum—see Iron and Steel
Montevideo Harbour Extension, 43
Montreal Harbour, New Storage Warehouse, 459
Motor Car Engine, Waste Heat for Warming
  Body of the Car, 71
Motor Car Fuel Economy Trial, 274
Motor Car Hill-climbing Trials at Monaco, 349
Motor Car Imports into British India, United
States Proportion nearly Three Times that of Great Britain, 43
Motor Car Racing, Disadvantage of Six and Eight-cylinder Engines, 513
Motor Car 1000-Miles Trial, Twenty-first Anniversary, 305
Motor Car Routes from the Congo to the Nile and to Lake Albert, 265
Motor Car which Won the Corsican Grand Prix, 513
Motor Fuels and Denaturation, Sir C. Bedford, 643
Motor Vehicles, Commercial, Parade of, 162
Motor Vehicles and Population in the United States, 619
Mysore, High-level Canal from River Cauvery Projected, 433
N
NAILS, Bolts and Nuts Manufacture, Report on Trade Combinations, 543
“Natalite,” Experimental Consignment from South Africa, 543
Natural Gas in Mexico, Great Waste of, 207
Natural Gas and Petroleum Association of
  Canada, 216
New South Wales Manufactures, Statistics, 643
Niagara Falls, Power Increase Without Detriment to View, 71
Norway, Industrial and Economic Situation, Report on, 377
o
OCEAN Exploration, Proposed Expedition for, 459
Oil Bore-hole for South Africa, 293
Oil Deposits, Enormous Unexplored, in Various Regions of Southern Mexico, 669
Oil Development in Alberta, Rush for Oil Leases, 71
Oil Development in Canada, Petroleum Find, Aeroplane Communication, 123
Oil Engines, Drott Surface Ignition, Tests by Belgian Colonial Army, 569
Oilfields of Northern Canada, 293
Oil Finds on the Mackenzie River, Proposed Investigation by Canadian Government, 71
Oil Fuel Storage Installations in the Argentine, 669
Oil Prospecting by Aeroplane in the Orinoco Wilderness, 619
Oil for Steam Turbines, Necessity for Keeping in Good Condition, C. H. Bromley, 543
Oil Storage Tanks, Large, Being Built at Durban, 179
Oil Wells at Baku, Soviet Concession to British Company, 569
Oils for Lubrication, Continuous Duration if Continuously Purified, 377
Old Centralians, 191
Optophone, Thermionic Amplifier Experiments to Increase Sound Volume, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 405
Omnibus, Six-wheeled, Paris Experiment, 485
Ontario Loan for Hydro-electric Power Commission, 669
Ovens for Coke-making, in 1841, 123
Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe for Boring Concrete, 595
Oxygen Manufacture for Engineering Use, Study of, at Harvard, 43
p
PACKING Case, Thief-proof, 543
Paris Passenger Traffic, Congestion Increase, Proposed Underground Moving Pavement, 265
Patent Office Assistant Examiners, Competitive Examination, 445, 549
Patent Office Inefficiency in America, 43
Pearl, Instrument to Detect Difference between
  Japanese Culture and Real Pearl, 662
“ Penrol,” New Motor Car Fuel, 433
Peru, Nationalisation of Water Power, 321, 669
Petrol Consumption in Australia, 405
Petroleum Bore-hole in Boshof District, South Africa, 485, 595
Petroleum Boring in Leicestershire, Licence Granted, 71
Philippines Postal and Passenger Aeroplane Service, 377
Phosphorus Deposits on Uninhabited Island, 265
Photometers, Illumination, Increased Use of, 377
Platinum Production in British Columbia, 433
Platinum, Prospecting for, in View of High Prices, 619
Platinum, World’s Production of, 293
Plug, Bougiver Type, with Glass Insulator, 237
Polish Wireless Station, Very Large, to be Constructed by American Company, 265
Portland Cement Manufacture in Brazil, Proposed, 71, 151
Post Office Purchase of Trans-Atlantic Cable, 321
Power Plant near Melbourne and Fuel By-
  Products Recovery, 513
Presentations for Long Service, 629
Producer Gas, Bad Effect on Electric Machinery Windings, 179
Pulp and Paper Mill, 6,000,000-DoIlar, Projected for Prince George, B.C., 97
Pulpwood in Manitoba, Land for Sale on Conditions, 377
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
  Accidents (continued):
Cambrian Railway Disaster at Abermule, 237, 265, 651
  Christmas and Accidents Record, 13
Coupling Failures and Accidents, Change in Regulations as to Reporting, 569
Fatal Accident, Rare Type of, on the North British Railway, 377 ; Report, 669
  Fatal Accident Statistics, 71
  Fatal Collision with Empty Coaches, 321
Fatal Passenger Train Accidents in this Country, Only Two in Nine Months, 377
Liverpool Overhead Railway Collision, Report, 511
London and South-Western Collision during Fog, near Vauxhall, 151 ; Report, 405
  London and South-Western Collision near
      Vauxhall, Report, 123
Lostock Junction Collision, Death of Another Passenger, 237
Paris-Orleans Railway Fatal Accidents, 543
Reports on Three Months’ Accidents, 207, 293
  Whitehouse Junction, Lancashire and
      Yorkshire Railway, Collision, Report, 66
  Acworth, Mr. W. M., Knighted, 97
Amalgamation of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway with the London and North- Western, Terms, 405 ; Previous Rejection of Similar Bill, 405
American Steam Locomotive Increased Export, 207
Apple Growing on Railway Embankments, Unfavourable Comment on Proposal, 513
Appointments and Staff Changes, 13, 43, 71, 97, 177, 179, 595, 643, 669
Argentine and Brazil as Markets for American Railway Material, 431
Armistice Railway Car to be Permanently Preserved in Paris, 485
Ashford Schools of the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 245
Automatic Signalling, English and American Claims to Invention, 237
Automatic Signalling on Mersey Railway Line, 319
Average Wagon Load, Highest on Record, 321
Baghdad Railway Ownership, 13
Belfast and County Down Railway, Capital Expenditure, 265
Bideford, Westward Ho ! and Appledore Railway, Rolling Stock to be Sold, 405
Bolivian Railway between Potosi and Sucre, 576
Bologna and Florence, Electrification of Line, 513
Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Survey for New Line, 595
Boonzaier T.U.V. Automatic Coupling, 286 Bridge Across the Yellow River, Plans, 71 Bridge, New, Over the Avon, Chippenham, 506
Bridges Over Railways and Omnibus Traffic, 669
British Railways and the Great War, Private Wagons Service, E. A. Pratt, 543
Brixton and Ludgate Hill Train Service Withdrawn, 321
Caledonian Railway, Eight-hour Day, Increase in Men and in Cost of Fuel, 293
Caledonian Railway Goods Brake Vans, Clayton Wagons, Limited, 151
Caine Branch Railway Bridge, New, near Chippenham, 506
Cambrian Railway Meeting and the Abermule Accident, 237
Cambrian Railway Takes Over Tanat Valley Light Railway, 377
Canadian Railways, Ownership and Finance, 542
Channel Tunnel Decision Delayed, 669
  Channel Tunnel or Train Ferries, 321
Cheap Tickets Issue Question to be Left to the Railway Companies, 433
Chilian and Argentine New Railway Construction, 123
Chinese Railway Single-line Working and Token Instruments, 321
Claims for Lost or Damaged Goods, Reduced Number of, at Paddington, 433
Coal Strikes and Railway Loss, 377
Colwyn Committee :
    Further Information Asked for, 43
    Report, 13
    Sir A. K. Butterworth’s Evidence, 71
Commercial Travellers’ Week-end Tickets, Suggested Revival, 349
Competitive Goods Traffic Allocation Ceases, 265
Concession to Season Ticket Holders during Restricted Train Service, 459
“Container” System and Pilfering from American Railways, 207
Cost of Material for Railways and Shipping, Enormous Rates Driving Huge Orders Abroad, 321
  Crewe Men, Past and Present, 417, 471
I Danish State Railways, New Steamer for Ferry, 123
Death of Engineman, and Workmen’s Compensation Act, 485
  Death of Mr. E. A. Bowden, 405
  Death of Mr. George Estall, 638
  Death of Mr. G. P. Neele, 13
  Death of Lord Terrington, 151
Denbighshire Transport Schemes and State Finance Question, 619
District and Associated Railways, Self supporting Basis Restored, 265
Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, and Coast Erosion, 409
Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, Escape from III Consequences of “ Munitions ” Strike, 293
Ealing and Shepherd’s Bush Extension, Poor Results, 293
  East London Railway’s Hard Caso, 179
Eastern Group of Railways, Suggested Further Inclusion, 207, 237
Electric Lighting of Railway Stations, New Method on the London and South-Western Railway, 569
  Electric Railway Training Film, 97
  Electrical Starting Signal, 237
Electric Traction on Railways, Lecture on its Advantages, Sir V. Raven, 179
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
Electrification of United Kingdom Railways, Delays Solely due to Finance, 522
Empty Rolling Stock, Waste irr Cost of Haulage, 513
English Railway Stockholders’ Protection Association, 179
Exceptional Rates and the Iron and Steel Trade, 669
Finland, Proposed New Railway in Ceded Territory, 207
First-class Compartments on the District Railway, Not to be Abolished, 13
Folkestone and Boulogne, Day Service Restored, 123
Freight Statistics, Four Weeks, and the Miners’ Strike, 123
Furness Railway’s Increased Passenger Traffic, 412
Furness Railway’s New Locomotives, 71
Funless Railway Scholarship, Conditions, 513
Furness Railway, Sunday Closing of some Stations, 122
Gauge, Break of, Device, Trial in Australia, 71
Gauge Conversion, Cost in Australia, 349
Gauge Disadvantages in Australia, 123
Gauge Question in South America, Difficulties Caused by Diversity, 43
German Locomotive Tenders for the Com- pania del Norte, 207
Glasgow and South-Western Railway Report, 237
Glasgow Subway Railway’s Heavy Loss on Working, 349
Glasgow Underground Electrification Declined on Account of Cost, 293
Goods Tonnage and Ton-miles in January, Reduction, 485
Goods Traffic by Road, Railway Companies’ Service, 179
Government Control, Date of Termination, 207
Great Eastern Engines Converted for Oil Firing, 569
Great Eastern Railway, Harwich-Antwerp New Steamer Malines, 71
Great Eastern Railway and the Railways Bill, 577
Great Eastern Railway, Steamers and Crane Cost, 179
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Expected
Large Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 207
Great Western Goods Train Working, Saving, 293
Great Western Point and Signal Levers, 123
Great Western Railway, Excursions and Fares Reduction, 433
Great Western Railway, Staff Training Scheme, 179
Grouping of Railways, Pros and Cons, 43, 207, 237, 265
Heavy Electric Traction, Co-operation with American Railway Engineering Association, 433
Holyhead, Work at, Parliamentary Sanction Required, 643
Hungary and State Railways, Electrification, 643
Indian Government Loan at 7 per cent., 459
Indian Railway Development and the Finance Question, 97
Indian Railways, Automatic Continuous Vacuum Brake Recommended on, 485
Ingot Mould Weighing over 87 Tons Carried by Rail, 543
Institutes and Institutions, Railway—see Associations, &c.
Interlocking on Single-line Railways, 669
Irish Collieries’ War-time Railways, Successful Traffic, 293
Irish Railwaymen and “ Direct Action,” 13
Iron and Steel Trade and Exceptional Carriage Rates, 669
Italy’s Projected Electrification of 5000 Miles of Railways, 555
Japanese Government Railways, Electrification, 648
Japanese Imperial Government Railways, Gauge Question, 459
Krupps’ Successful Tender for Steel Wheels for Argentine Railways, 349
Lancashire and Yorkshire First-class Season Ticket Holders, 377
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Increase of Capital Expenditure, 459
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Sir E.
  Stockton and Hereditary Service, 179
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company Ceases as a Carrier, Wages, Hours and the Trade Union, 433
Level Crossing for Two Vehicles a Week at a Weekly Cost of over £12, 293
Liverpool Committee on Question of Additional Passenger Facilities, 293
Locomotives and Wagons, New. and under Repair, 237
London and North-Western Engine Coaling Plant at Crewe, 377
London and North-Western Railway Chairmanship, 595
London and North-Western Work at Holyhead, Parliamentary Approval Necessary, 643
London and South-Western Electrical Services Traffic Statistics, 43
London and South-Western New Signalling Invention, 123
London Traffic Authority Bill Abandoned, 321
Lung-hai Railway Construction, Maritime Terminus and New Port Projected, 595
Melbourne Suburban Railways, Success of Partial Electrification, 595
Mersey Railway, Automatic Signalling on Line from Liverpool to Birkenhead, 319
Mersey Railway Company Fares Advance, 569
Metropolitan Railway Company’s New Well, 264
Midland Railway Express Trains Punctuality, 301 •
Midland Railway, Increased Output of New and Repaired Rolling Stock, 265
Ministry of Transport’s Committee on Railway Companies’ Goods Traffic Road Service, 179
Ministry of Transport’s Figures as to Passenger Traffic, €69
National Union of Railwaymen. Decline in Membership, 543
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
New South Wales Railway Car Mileage, Suggested Increase to Effect Large Savings, 465
New South Wales Railways, Suggestions for Improvements and Economies Adopted, 349
North British Railway and Burntisland Harbour, 643
North British Railway Ferry Charges, 459
North British and Other Companies and the Ministry of Transport, Disputed Claims, 237, 293, 543, 595
North-Eastern Railway, Economies in View of Increased Cost, 293
North-Eastern Railway, Meeting to Consider Railways Bill, 543
North-Eastern Railway and Railway Grouping Scheme, 43, 207, 237
North-Eastern Wages Bill, Increase of 225 per Cent., 265
North Staffordshire Engines Fitted for Oil Fuel, 619
North Staffordshire Railway Bill, 542
North Staffordshire Railway’s Proposed
    Capital Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 293 Norwegian Government Concession for Electric Railway, 179
Oil Fuel on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 669
Passenger Fares and the Coal Strike, 538
Passenger Traffic Reduction Statistics, 669
Pekin and Hankow Railway, New Bridge, 71 Pekin-Hankow and Pekin—Pukow Railways’
  Connection, 643
Pekin New Railway Station, 543
Policy Proposed in White Paper, Men’s Joint Committee on, 97
Port Talbot Railways and Docks Company, Railway Business and Property Taken Over by Great Western, 433
Presentation to Mr. J. Rayner-Smith, 43
Pre-war Facilities, but at Post-war Prices, 619
Prince of Wales’ Train Derailment in Australia Due to Heavy Train, 349
Queensland Government Railways, Change in Administration, 513
Quick Method of Tickets Issue, 485
Quito, Ecuador, National Tramway Company Plans, 643
Rail Locomotive Parts from the United States, 349
Rails from Belgium £12 per Ton Against £23 at Home, 321
Rails, Steel, for the South Manchurian Railway, 459
Railway Benevolent Institution Funds, 151. 321
Railway Commissioners, New Appointment, 71
Railway Companies’ Claims and the Government, 543
Railway Companies and Trades Unions, New Agreement, 543 ; Further Discussion, 569
Railway Difficulties and Railwaymen’s Hours and Pay, 619
Railway Equipment Increasing Cost, 459
Railway Material Exports, Statistics, 182, 265, 377, 485, 619
Railway Operating Statistics, 123, 151, 179, 292, 330, 459, 485
Railway Returns for 1919. First Since the War, 237, 568
Railway Servants’ Pay, Sliding Scale, 97, 123, 377
Railway Staff and Unemployment, Question of Guaranteed Week, 97
Railway Stockholders’ Association and Sir Eric Geddes, 237
Railway Stockholders Outnumber Railway Employees, 433
Railway Track Ctfst and Motor Vehicle Immunity, 293
Railway and Tramway Traffic. Morning and
  Evening Hours’ Demands, 569
Railways Bill, Analysis of Voting, 595’
Railways Bill, Directors’ Views and Communication with Proprietors, 569
Railways Bill Introduction, 459, 543, 643
Railways Bill Postponement and End of Control, 433
Rates Advisory Committee, Fares, &c., 237
Rates Advisory Committee and Goods Classification, 43, 97, 237, 377
Rates Advisory Committee, Postponement of Public Meeting on Account of Present Crisis, 433, 569
Receipts and Expenditure for November, 1920, 71
Receipts and Expenditure for December, 1920, 349
Receipts and Expenditure for March, 1921, 512
Receipts and Expenditure for April, 643
Receipts and Expenditure for Twelve Months, 349
Reports of English Railway Companies, 179
Restricted Service Due to Coal Strike, 595
Richborough and the South-Eastern and
  Chatham Railway, 207
Road Traffic and Loss by Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 459
Road Traffic by Railways, 459
Rolling Stock Construction and Repair Statistics, 123, 619
Rolling Stock Expenditure by Two Railways, 459
Rubber Covering of Platforms Suggested to Reduce Noise, 669
Rumanian Railways and Working by French Group, 71
“ Safety First,” Awards to Drivers of Street Vehicles, 265
Scottish Coalowners’ Association and the Railway Question, 13
Scottish Railway Companies and English Amalgamation Tribunal, 569
Scottish Railway Stockholders’ Protection Association, Appeal, 485
Scottish Railway’s Increased Expenditure, 643
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company Ceases to be a Carrier, 669
Signal-box Control of Railway Points, 651
Single-decker Omnibuses for Road Bridges over Railways, 669
Single-line Working not to be Abandoned, 321
South African Railways and Harbours,
  Failure in Courtesy of Staff, 513
South African Railways and Harbours, Finance Analysis, 433
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
South African Railways, Increase in Mileage and Traffic, 433
South African Railways, Useful Disposal of Timber Packing Material, 405
South African Reduction of Railway Rates for Bunker Coal, 459
South African Treatment of Light Railway Rolling Stock, 652
South-Eastern Railway, Holdings of Stock, Analysis, 207
South-Western Railway Delayed Electrification Due to Enormous Cost Increase, 293 Spanish Iron and Steel Syndicate for Supply of Wagons to Spanish Railways, 151
Spanish Railway Electric Installations, Contract for American Firms, 151
Spanish Railway Material Obtained from Germany, 151
Spanish Railway Wagons and Germany’s Successful Tender, 151
Spanish Railway Wagons Ordered from Spanish Firms, 321
Spanish Railways, Ownership Transference, 595
Standardisation of Wages, Anomalies, 349
Standardised Wages in Ireland as well as on British Lines, 293
Steam Rail Motor Cars Reduced to Four on the London and South-Western Railway, 466
Strikes and Wireless Telephony, 207
Suez Canal and Kantara Bridge Question, 513
Sunday Night Trains and Withdrawal of Sunday Postal Service, 643
Sunday Trains, Improved Service between Broad-street and Richmond, 432
Superannuation Allowances of Old Railway Servants, Increased Benefits, 349
Superheating on British Railways and Mr. O. Winder, 377
Swedish Locomotive Manufacturing Firm, Soviet Orders and Extension of Works, 179
Swiss Electrical Locomotives and Motor Coaches, 569
Swiss Railways, Nationalisation Question, 619
Tanat Valley Light Railway Taken Over by Cambrian Company, 377
Telegraph and Telephone Wire Mileage Maintained by Railways for Post Office Use, 265
Telescoping and Composition of Passenger Trains, 265
Three-cylinder Engines for Express Passenger Trains, 569
Tientsin— Pukow Railway Electric Plant, 595
Ton-mileage Figures for March, 669
Traffic Figures, Reduction in Passengers, 669
Traffic Increase between Bakerloo and
  London and North-Western Railway, 328 Traffic (Merchandise) Decline during March, 669
Traffic by Railway or Ship, Rates Question, 459
Traffic Statistics, Passengers and Passenger Receipts, 123
Train Alterations and Additions Postponed on Account of Coal Dispute, 643
Train Ferries as Alternative to Channel Tunnel, 321
Train Services, Improvement in, 643
Train Services, Passenger, Reduction, for Saving of Coal, 485
Transport, Passenger Traffic and Electric Power Demand, Arthur Watson on, 485
Triennial Census of Railway Servants, 404 Tunnel under the Thames to Connect Gravesend and Tilbury, Projected, 321
Unballasted Lines in Australia, Excessive Cost of Working, 71
United States Railways :
Accident Inquiries, Disastrous Record, 123 Accidents Record, Improvement, 13 Accidents Record, Method of Reporting, 619 .
American Railroad Wages Reduction, 643
Average Railway Receipts and Wholesale Prices in United States, 595
Baldwin Company’s Locomotive Output, 151
Boilers, Locomotive, Inspector’s Recommendation, 405
Congressional] Enquiry into Railway Finance, 513
Consolidation of Railways, U.S. Government Scheme, 64
  Death of Mr. George S. Rice, 151
  Electrification of Railways in America.
    Committee’s Conclusions, 595
Electrification of Railways, Committee’s Report, 569
Electrification of Railways and Industries between Boston and Washington, Investigation as to Economy, 97
Employees on the United States Railways, Numbers and Pay, 543
Expansion of Facilities for Traffic Movements, 265
Freight Traffic Greatly Diminished, 43, 207 Fruits and Vegetables and Freight Rates, 595
Labour and Inter-urban Railways, Disputes and Labour Board Decision, 71
Locomotive Export Association of New York City on United States Successful Competition for Orders, 349
New York Central, Terrible Collision near Chicago, 342
New York State and City, Transit Commission Appointed, 513
Pennsylvania, New York Terminus and Ferries Statistics, 71
Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburg Station and Public Thoroughfares, Wall Failure and Results, 151
Pennsylvania Railroad, Seventy-fifth Anniversary, 513
Private Operation of the United States Railways, Nine Months’ Remarkable Increases, 207
Rail Sections, Rolling, Needless Expense, 179
Rails Production in the United States, Details, 595
Railway Track Mileage, Great Decrease, 569
Railwaymen’s Conventions and Depressed Trade, 543
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
  United States Railways (continued):
Revenue Decrease, but no Change in Wages, Possible Inquiry, 465, 513
“ Safety First ” Reminder on the Chicago and North-Western Railroad, 513
    Salaries of Railway Officers in America, 643
Tickets or Payment in the Train, Company’s Action, 513
    Timber Bridge Replaced by Steel, 43
Tramcar Preferred to Rapid Transit Railways, 349
  Unjustifiable Complaints from Florida, 595 Victoria and New South Wales Delegation to United States, 669
  Victoria and New South Wales, Increase in
    I nter-traffic, 123
Victoria Station, District Railway, New Footbridge and Exit, 405
Victorian Government Railways’ New Type of Locomotive, 97
Victorian Government Railways’ Statement as to Increased Fares, 669
Victorian Government Railways’ Statistics, 43
Victorian Railways and Car Loading, 543
Wages and Fares, Railway, Finance on the
    Furness Railway, 405
Wagon, Privately Owned, Question of Abolition, 97
Welsh Railways and the Railways Bill Grouping, 619
  Whitsuntide and the Coal Dispute, 543
  Wireless on the Midland and London and
North-Western Railways for Railway Purposes only, 543
  Wireless Telephony and Railway Strikes, 207
RAIN Precipitation by Electro-static Influence, Experiments with Aeroplane, 405
Refrigerating Industry, Volume of Standard Ton in British Thermal Units, 43
Reservoirs near Poona, Land Compensation Question Unsettled, 569
Rest, One Day in Seven, in South African Mines, 97
Rice Straw for Power Alcohol, 643
Road 172 Miles Long Proposed between Canton and Kowloon, 595
Road Wheel, New, 527
Rock Drills, Pneumatic, Mechanical and Thermal Efficiency of, 71
“ Romance of Science,” Professor Sir W. H.
  Bragg, 321
Royal Agricultural Society Show, at Darby, 349
Royal College of Science, Royal School of Mines, City and Guilds (Engineering) College, Meteorological Lectures, Programme, 24
Rubber Industry in United States as Largest User of Electric Power, 97
Rugby Water—see Water Supply
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued) ?.
  Oil Fuel on the ss. Bismarck, 569
  Oil Tankers and other Steamers Built at
    Hong Kong, 13
  Olympic Oil Bunker Capacity Increased, 321
  Salvaged Vessel from the. Red Sea, 595
Self-propelled Steel Barges with Electrical Steering Gear, 433
Ship Loading Speed Record in Duluth Harbour, 293
  Shipyard at Vancouver Reopened, 151
Somersetshire, Steamship, Launched at Belfast, Complete Electrical Equipment, 293 South Australia and Shipbuilding, Launch of the Eurimbla, 485
Spanish Shipbuilding and Navigation Development, New Law, 485
Steamship Spaniel, Conversion as Cattlecarrying Boat, 454
Stranding of Steamer Blackhill, Bearings Obtained by Wireless during Fog, 97
Tank Steamer Repaired by Use of Outside Caisson, 13
Tug, Quaint Type, for New York State Canal, 569
SHORT-.STROKE Planers, Advantages over Shaping Machines, 543
Silver and Lead in the Yukon, 151
Silver-lead Mine at Cania, Central Queensland, 377
Sir John Cass Technical Institute, 308
Smart Work by a Middlesbrough Company, 569
Smugglers’ Armoured Car and Contents Captured in Flanders, 569
South African Imports and Exports, 43
South African Mining and Engineering Journal, Editor, 207
South African Road Bridges, Large Order to United Kingdom, 595
South Kensington Science Museum, New Catalogues, 405
Spain, Longest Motor Transport Line in the Country Opened, 433
Spanish Bill for Expenditure on Public Works, 543
Spanish Harbour Conditions, 405
Spanish Telephones and Swedish Manufacture, 619
Sparking Plug, New Type, 669
Standard—see also British Standard.
Standardisation, Automobile, 642
Standardisation in Belgium, 43
Steam Engine, -Single-cylinder, Largest in Europe, 513
Steam Ferry Traffic between Sweden and Great Britain, 349
Steam Pipe Explosion Causes, 349
Steam Turbines, Pass-out, D. Brownlie, 179 Steel—see Iron and Steel
Sulphite Pulp Mill, Finland, to Begin Work, 485
Sulphuric Acid Manufacture in the United States, 123
Sulphuric and Nitric Acid—see also Scientific Research
Swansea as the Chief Oil Port of the United Kingdom, 619
Swedish Agricultural Machinery, Reduced Prices, 207
Sydney Harbour Bridge Proposal, Tenders to be Invited, 43
T
TANK, Amphibious, Trials, 459
Taxation of Mechanically Propelled Road Vehicles, 179
Telephone Cable, Continental Trunk, 679
Telephone Rate Increase in New York, 349
Telephone Sentry-boxes for Motorists’ Night
  Use, 265
Telephones for Cuba, 8000 Ordered, 151
Telephones, Long-distance, Experiments in France, 619
Telephones in Sweden, Pre-eminent Position Claimed for, 71
Thornycroft’s London Staff Dinner, 159
Thunder and Gunfire, Accoustics Comparison,
  J. W. Humphreys, 643
Tides Utilisation as Motive Power in Hie et
  Vilaine, Experimental Work, 237
Tractor Trials, Successful, on Singapore Rubber
  Estate, 485
Tractors at Beersheba, Demonstration, 459
Tractors to Replace Coolie Labour, Suggestion, 485
Tractors in Western Canada, 595
Train Ferry, Anglo-Swedish, Proposed, 13
Train Ferry, Anglo-Swedish, Postponed, 459
Tungsten—see Iron
Tunnel, New Vehicular, between New York and Jersey, Ventilation Experiments, 97
Turbine Lubrication and Oil Purifying, 377
Turbo-blower, Unusual Accident, 405
UNEMPLOYMENT on the Continent Daily Increasing, 151
United States Copper Export Association, 179
United States Electric Trucks in Commission, Great Increase in Number, 405
United States Shipping Material, Sale of, 513
University of London, University College, Lectures, 27, 232 ; Lectures by Professor Luigi Luiggi, 194, 232
University of Manchester, Lecture by Professor Einstein, 433
V
i VALVES of Internal Combustion Engines, Heat Treatment for, 293
Vancouver, Increase in Cargo Handled at the Port, 265
Vancouver Island, Mineral-bearing Land Survey by Canadian Pacific Railway, 405
Venezuela, Commercial Museum in, 260
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WAGES Reduction in New York Shipyards, 293
Wagon, 12-Ton Standardisation Recommended, 440
Water Diversion from Lake Michigan, Proposed, Anticipated Effect on Level of St. Lawrence River, 569
Water Power Plant, Cost of, in New England, 237
Water Power of the St. Lawrence River, Latest
  Development Scheme, 669
WATER SUPPLY :
Bombay Water Supply Department Inviting Various Tenders, 595
Chauny (Aisne) Drinking Wa ter and Drainage Plant Competition, 237
Cordoba Water Supply Improvement Scheme, 669
  Rand Pumping Scheme Plant, Tenders, 207
Rand Water Supply, Barrage across the Vaal River, 595
Rugby Water and Sewage Scheme for Clifton- on-Dunsmore, 216
Seattle, Additional Water Supply, 377
Specifications of Standard Water Pipes and Fittings, 224
' Sydney Water Supply Extension, 349 Tampico, Mexico, Water Supply for, 433
WATER Tanks, Elevated, Reinforced Concrete’ Built in Germany, 207
Waygood-Otis, Limited, Patriotic Fund Winding-up,. 389
Welding, Acetylene, Success with a Long Steel Gas Pipe, 543
Well Sunk by Metropolitan Railway at Neasden, 264
West Bromwich goes a’ Borrowing, 619
West Kent Main Sewerage Board, New Plant, 97
Wheel, Road, New Form, Stagg Patent Wheel Company, 527
Wind Power, Improved Method for Utilisation of, 151
Wire Measurement, Difficulties in Obtaining Exact Results, 43
Wireless, Amateur, Installations in America and United Kingdom, 15]
Wireless Equipped Motor Car for San Francisco, 485
Wireless Post Suggested on Willis Island, 643
Wireless Station for Belgium, to be Among Most Powerful in the World, 377
Wireless Station, Most Powerful in the World, First Stone Laid at Sainte Assise, 71
Wireless Station Plant at Port Elizabeth, 569
Wireless Station, Proposed, on Bank Premises, 293
Wireless Station at Shanghai, 513
Wireless Station at Tomiska, Japan, 97
Wireless Station at Warsaw, American Company to Erect, 349
Wireless Telegraph Station for Greenland, British and Danish Negotiations, 485
Wireless Telegraph Station on the Willis Islands, Investigation of Possibilities by Australian Government, 265, 321
Wireless Telegraphy in Life-saving at Sea, 349
Wireless Telegraphy for Railway Purposes, Successful Tests, 207
Wireless Telephone for American Motor Cars, 71
Wireless Telephone for Panama Railway Towing Vessels, 293
Wireless Telephony for Commercial Purposes, First Installation in United Kingdom, 377
Wireless, World’s Long-distance Record Broken, 405
Women’s Engineering Society :
  Loughborough Branch Started, 109
  Second Annual General Meeting, 581
Wood Preservation, Various Methods, 349
Wood Pulp Mill Started in Alaska, 433
Wooden Wedges in the Rand Mines, 642
Woosung, near Shanghai, Industrial District Development, 411
Wuchang as a Port on the Yangtze River, 643
X
X-RAY Motor Ambulance Wagon, 595
Y
YORKSHIRE Boiler Works, Visit and Lecture, 471
ZANZIBAR Harbour, Extensive Improvement, 207
Zanzibar Harbour Improvement Works, Cost of, 43
Zinc Ammonium Chloride in Galvanising to Replace Sal Ammoniac, 97
Zinc Ore Treatment by Novel Electric Resistance Furnce, Professor C. H. Fulton, 13


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A ACOUSTICAL Effects in Wireless, Captain J. Robinson, 619 Aerial Navigation, Radio Apparatus, in, 619 Aerial for Wave Lengths below 400 m., Condenser Type, 669 Agricultural Possibilities of French West Africa, Scheme for Utilisation of Niger Floods, 669 Agricultural Tractor Trials. Name of Prize Winner, 485 Air Navigation, Anglo-French Agreement, 485 “ Alcobrons,” Metal Alloy, 97 Alcohol Fuel, Experimental Consignment of “ Natalite ” from South Africa, 543 Alcohol for Power Purposes, Empire Motor .

 Fuels Committee Report, 265

Alexandria, Proposed Dredging of Great Pass, I 643 Aliens, Former Enemy, Excluded from Manufacture of Dyestuffs in the United Kingdom, 433 Aluminium and its Alloys, Protection from

 Corrosion, Herr L. von Grotthaus, 643

American Air Service Estimates, 207 American Bricklayers’ Increase in Pay and

 Decrease in Work, 43

Anglo-Swedish Train Ferry Proposed, 13 Apprenticeship Scheme for Queensland, 400 Aqueduct from Naples to Taranto, 321 Argentina State Oilfields Production, Plans for Intensifying, 97 Argentine Company for Shipbuilding for Trade with Europe, 7 0 Asbestos Exports from Quebec, 619 Asbestos Industry in Quebec, 480


Asphalt Macadam, Proper Method of. Laying, 237 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:

 INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY :

Questions for Special Committee. Glassware Origin, &c., 595

 INSTITUTE, CONCRETE :

Building Exhibition, Luncheon at Olympia, 428

    Land Subsidence, Lawson S. White, 643

Programme in connection with Inter national Building Trades’ Exhibition, 364

 INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
    Annual Meeting and Programme, 335

Joint Discussion on Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, 162

 INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERS :

Lloyd’s Register Scholarships and Essay Competitions, 162

    Lubrication of Internal Combustion
      Engines, 331

Propellers and Question of Erosion, A. T. Quelch, 485

 INSTITUTE OF METALS :

Autumn Return Visit to Birmingham, 417 LONDON LOCAL SECTION : Formation, Papers, 60:40 Brass, O. W. Ellis; Aluminium Alloys, S. L. Archbutt; Refractories, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 237


ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :

 INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT :

Manchester Congress, Preliminary Announcement, 24 Some Advantages of Control as Applied to Traffic on Railways, Arthur Watson, 485 INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS : Informal Meetings at Birmingham, 357 Pneumatic Motor Tires, Design and Manufacture of, Colin Macbeth, 179 Recent Developments in Transmission, Captain S. Bramley-Moore, 97

 INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :

Annual General Meeting, Result of Ballot for Election of Officers, 558

    Awards for Papers, 493

Engineering Conference, Series, Renewal, 530 “ James Forrest ” Lecture, Date Fixed, 530 Kelvin Medal Presentation to Dr. Unwin, 458

    Students’ Dinner, 493
 INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :

Design of a Large Power Station, Some Notes on, Discussion, 191 Election of New Officers and Members of Council, 632 Heating of Buried Cables, Investigation and Report, 43

    Informal Meeting, 191

Proposed Examination for Associate Membership, 83


ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :

 INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
   (continued) :

Redecorating and Re-opening of Building, 433 Removal of the Institution to Own Building, 549

   Summer Meeting in Scotland, 232, 338

INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :

   Present Position of the Marine Diesel
      Engine, James Richardson, 237
 INSTITUTION OF GAS ENGINEERS :
   Postponement of Annual Meeting, 527
 INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
   Annual Dinner, 605

INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS (LONDON) :

   •Election of Officers, 252

INSTITUTION . OF MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY ENGINEERS : Annual General Meeting and Conference, Programme, 552

   Programme for Dorking Meeting, 372
 INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :

Annual Meeting and Dinner, 135, 215 ; Programme, 215

   Awards for Papers, 71

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) : INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGI¬NEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS : Invitation from Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders In Scotland to hold Summer Meeting in Glasgow, 249 Scholarship Offered to Graduates, 293 INSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS : Officers Elected for Session 1921-1922, 361 INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGI¬NEERS : Changes Among Officials, 265 Magnetic Storms : Effects upon Railway Signal and Telegraph Apparatus, 513 Suggestions for Papers, Premium Offer Renewal, 485 INSTITUTION, ROYAL : Annual Meeting— Election of Officers, 493 General Meetings, Elections, 277, 389, 513, 632 Presents to the Institution, Acknowledge¬ment, 632 Programme of Lectures, 277, 357, 361, 584 INSTITUTION OF WATER ENGINEERS : Summer General Meeting at Hull, Pro¬gramme, 552 SOCIETY, AMERICAN, FOR TESTING MAT¬ERIALS : Annual Meeting and Programme, 581 Softening Point of Fire-clay Brick, 123 SOCIETY, ASSOCIATED, OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGI¬NEERS : Removal of Head Offices to London, 651 SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY : Oils Used in Transformers, Mr. Archbutt on, 321 Rudge-Whitworth, Limited, 321 SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS (CRYSTAL PALACE ENGINEERING SOCIETY) : Wilson Premium Award, C. W. Carter, 440 List of Papers Read during Session, 440 SOCIETY, FARADAY : General Discussion on Physico-Chemical Problems relating to the Soil, 454, 552 Joint Meeting and Discussion on Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, 162—see also Miscellaneous Index SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL ENGINEERING : Annual Dinner, 132 SOCIETY, PHYSICAL : Frequency Measurement, Heterodyne Method, Messrs. B. S. Smith and Partridge, 459 SOCIETY, ROYAL AERONAUTICAL : Council for 1921, 413 Pilcher Memorial Prize for Students, 581 SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS : Mineral Resources of China, Prize Offered, 135 Oil-burning Methods and Results in Metallurgical Industries, A. F. Baillie 151 Prize in Memory of Mr. Peter Le Neve Foster, 135 AUSTRIAN Imports and Exports, 349 Automatic Coupling for Railway Vehicles—see Railways A.utomobile Association Fuel Supply Stations, 349 Automobile Association Installation of Tele¬phone Sentry Boxes for Night Use, 265 Automobile Standardisation, 642 Aviation in Central Queensland, Linking up of Distant Centres, 569

B BALL Bearings for Heavy Horse-drawn Vehicles, Tests by Swedish Artillery, 595 Bamboo for Papermaking, 274, 321 Belfast, Annual Staff Dinner of Messrs. Musgrave and Co., 305 Belfast, Proposed Grain Silo for, 151 Belgian Eight-hour Day and Forty-eight-hour Week, 543 Belt Speed and Power Calculator, J. Tullis and

  Son, Limited, 109

Belt Stretcher, C. M. Conder, 655 Belts, Leather, How to Use, Buck and Hickman, Limited, 605 Benzol for Motor Fuel, 211 Bicycles from Germany Much Cheaper than English-made, 265 Bilbao Company Exchanges Construction of Ships for Marine Motors and Railway Material, 43 Blast-furnaces—see Iron Bolivian Demand for Grinding and Crushing Machinery, 619 Bombay and Ahmedabad Telephone Service, 485 Bombay Reclamation Works, 405 Boonzaier T.U.V. Automatic Coupling, 286 Borax, Largest Known Deposit Discovered in Nevada, 619 Bricks, Sand Lime, Manufacture, in Federated

  Malay States, 293

Brisbane Sewerage System, 405 Bristol University Automobile Laboratory, 151 British Columbia, Land Clearing and Projected

  Stump-using Industry, 377

British Columbia, Mineral Production, 179 British Engineering Standards Association, Specification for Benzol for Motor Fuel, 211 British Engineers’ Association, Annual Meeting, 552 British Honduras, Development of, Irrigation for Rice Growing, Needs of the Colony, 237 British and South American Merchandise and Produce Exhibition, 97 B.T.H. Willesden Works Forinen’s Dinner, 58 c CADMIUM Electro-plating, 669 Calcite Spar, Deposit of, near Yokecliffe Lead Mines, 433.


Canada’s Metal and Mineral Production, 179, 377 Canadian Deep Waterways Association, Speeding-up of Public Works Construction Urgently Demanded, 71 Canal between Bruges and Roulers, 207 Canals in India, Proposed Electrical Connection, 293 Canals, Moss and Plant Growth, Methods for Destruction of, 151 Carbon Monoxide Detection Instrument, 433 Carbonisation of Coal—see Coal Cardiff Technical College, Class for Rolling Stock Construction, 88 Catalogues for Amsterdam, 249 Catalogues for Czernowitz, Roumania, 361 Catalogues for Jerusalem, 385 Catalogues for Madagascar, 650 Catskill Aqueduct, Steel Pipe Lining Protection, 513 Census of Production Abandoned, 433 Charring Useless as a Wood Preservative, 349 Chemical Industry in Germany, 207 Chimney Down Draught Trouble, 265 China, Good Roads Movement, 321 China, Important Road-building Scheme Projected, 643 China as a Market for Agricultural Implements, 513 China, Various Schemes for Important Public Works in, 643 Chinese and American Engineers’ Association Organised in Peking, 43 Chinese Glass Works, 207 Circulating Water, Cooling in Canals, 71 Clip, New Type, for Rubber Hose with Metal Fittings, Brown Brothers, Limited, 83 Clock, Automatic and Controlling, 405 COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES:

 Anthracite Coalfield of British Columbia, 669

Atritor Coal Dryer and Pulveriser, 676 Briquetting of Lignite Coal, Successful Plant in Saskatchewan, 377

 Briquetting Plants in German Works, 569

British Columbia to Abolish Naked Lights in Coal Mines, 459

 Canada, Coal Resources of, 459

Canadian Steamers Exchanging Oil for Coal Fuel Equipment, 43 Carbon Dioxide in Coal, Determination of, 215 Carbonisation of Coal, Low Temperature, Advantages of Smokeless Fuel, Major Armstrong’s Lecture, 43 Coal, Coke and Patent Fuel Export, Withdrawal of Restrictions, 43 Coal Transmission by Water Pressure, American Project, 13 Coaling Plant for Delagoa Bay, Tests, 485

 Coke as a Boiler Fuel, 361
 Coke for Metallurgical Purposes, 13
 Denton, Valuable Coal Seam Discovery at, 97

Dutch Coal Districts and Waterways, Projected Schemes, 293 Electrical Coal-cutting Machines Unsafe at Present in New South Wales Colliery, 377 Export of British Coal, and Prices, 43 Froth Flotation Process for Coal Purification, 179 Japan, Average Coal Output, 237 Japan Exports Coal to New Zealand, 23 Kentish Coal, Calorific Value Compared with Yorkshire, 151 Kwantung’s Coal Resources, Development by British Syndicate, 377

 Liquid Air for Coal Blasting, 265

Natal Coals, Average Heating Value, 459 Newfoundland Coal Area Development, 123 Rhenish Brown Coal as Fuel in Gas Producers, 179 Richards Bay, North of Durban, as Coaling Port, 237 South Africa, Coal Mining Output in, 13 South Wales Coal, Best Seams Worked Out, 97 Storage Battery Locomotives in American Coal Mines, 207 Tippler, Coal, for Delagoa Bay, Satisfactory Test, 595 Transport of Coal, Suggestions for Reducing Heavy Cost, 543 COAST Erosion on the South-east of Ireland, 409 Colorado River, New Bridge over, 265 Commercial Motor Users’ Association : Annual Luncheon, Roads and Road Users, Sir Eric Geddes, 385

 Annual Parade of Motor Vehicles, 377
 London Commercial Motor Parade, 338

Compressed Air “ Pistols ” for Various Uses, 123 Concrete Arch Bridges, 237 Concrete Arch, Longest in Canada, 513 Concrete Bored by Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe, 595 Concrete Bricks, Sand, Lime and other, H. O.

 Weller, 459

Concrete, Fusing Point of, 513 Concrete Mixing, Tests in America, 595 Concrete, Oils and Fats Attack on, 71 Concrete Piles, Hollow, Novel Process of Manufacture, 377 Concrete Pipes for Water under High Pressure, 669 Concrete, Reinforced, Wireless Tower, 660ft.

 High, 595

Concrete Saving but Increased Cost of Form- work, 321 Concrete Structures, Joints in, System for

 Making Water-tight, 513

Continental Trunk Telephone Cable, 679 Cooling Tower, Largest, in the World, 293 Copper, Free Exportation from Mexico, 207 Corrosion, Internal, of Hot Water Pipes, F. N.

 Speller, 513

Corrosion in Steel Works Chimneys, Failure of Attempted Remedy, 595 Corundum Deposits of the Transvaal, 71 Cotton Cultivation in Argentina, 123 Creosoted Wood-stave Pipes, Long Duration of, 237 Creosoting of Wooden Sleepers, New Process

 Tried in America, 569

Crinan Canal, 361 Crossley Brothers’ Staff Dinner, 191 Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers Read during Session, 440 ; Wilson Premium Award, 440


E ECONOMIC Position in Engineering Industries, 357 Egypt and the Sudan, Public Works and Finance, 619 Eight-storey Building Moved 40ft., 569 Einstein Theory and the Velocity of Light, 669 ELECTRICAL MATTERS : A.E.G. and Linke-Hoffmann Works, 330 Application of Electrical Machinery to

   Increase Mine Production, T. R. Haig, 619 Arc-fused Steel, Unsatisfactory in Result, 13 Arc Welding of Aluminium, F. J. Heyes, 595 Artificial Silk for Cable Requirements, 643 Ash Disposal in German Power Houses, 123 Birmingham and Increased Electrical Supply,
   The Corporation and the Traders, 207

Boston and Washington Districts, Superpower Station and Expected Increased Demand, 321 British Electrical and Allied Industries’ Research Association, 669 Capetown New Power House, Provision for Great Expansion of Electrical Demand, 321 Chile, Natural Water Power Resources for Generating Electricity for Certain Towns, 273, 321 Coal-cutting Machines and Question of Safety in New South Wales Mine, 377 Cotton Mills Electrification in Blackburn, 179 Defective Contact Lift Fatality, 97 Douro, Proposed Utilisation of Falls of, for Railway Electrification, 377 Earthing in Electrical Practice, Indiscriminate Use of Water Pipes, 151 Electric Power Utilisation in Modern Gasworks, 265. Electric versus Combustion Furnaces for Low Temperatures, F. W. Brooke and G. P. Mills, 123 Electrical Research Association and Insulating Materials, 513 Electricity Commissioners and Lancashire Schemes, 237

 Electrostatic Condensers, V. E. Goodwin, 485 Federated Malay States Electricity Board, 643

Flashlight, Hand, New Type of, 123 Fuses, H. W. Kefford, 123 Gas-filled Electric Lamps, Increased Demand, 43 German Electric Cable Industry’s Bad Trade, 265 Germany’s Reduced Coal Supply and Increased Demand for Electric Power, 265 Gosport and Delayed Power Supply, 543 Greenwich Power Station Boilers Equipped for Oil-burning in View of Coal Shortage, 669 Grimsby Electrical Extensions Scheme, 13 Hereford’s Proposed Extension of Area of Electricity Supply, 376 High-current Tests and High-tension Switchgear, Philip Torchio, 485 High Power Factor on Consumers’ Circuits, Proposed Tariff, 569 Houses, All-electric, for Power Station Employees, near Stockton-on-Tees, 97

 Inductance Coils, American Research, 211 Ipswich Savings by Substitution of Electric Vehicles for Horses and Carts, 369

Lamps in Series on Traction Circuits, Device for Quick Discovery of Damage, 405 Leicester’s New 10,000-kilowatt Generator, 513

 Liverpool Docks Electrification Progress, 13 Magnetos for the Air Service, Superiority of

British Design, Captain A. B. Burgoyne, 485 Merchant Ships, Electric Auxiliaries for, C, H. Giroux, 293 Mersey Power Station for Supply at Runcorn and at Ellesmere Port, 485 Mice and Electric Bells, 265 Motor for Use in Rooms where Explosive Mixtures may be Present, 179 Neon Lamp, New Type, 321 Netherlands East Indies, Lighting and Power Supply Transformation, 97 Newark Electricity Scheme, Expense Objected to, 595 New Zealand, Ashburton County Electrical Scheme, 349 North Wales and Supply of Electricity, Improvement Scheme, 71 North-West Midlands District Proposals, Time Extension for Objectors, 349 Omnibus, Edison, New Type, 123 Paper-making and Scanty Use of Electrical Power, 405 Phase Sequence Indicating Device, 619 Photometer, Action of Special Device, A. H.

  Compton, 71

Power Pressure Increase in Southern California, 543 Preston’s Supply Chiefly Generated by Steam from the Refuse Destructor, 619 Pukow Projected Electric Generating Plant, 669 Punjab, Development of Schemes for Electrical Power, 71 Punjab Hydro-electric Scheme for Canal Use, 293 Railway Station Lighting, New System Introduced on the London and South- Western Railway, 569


ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) : Rodditch Electric Supply and Coal Shortage, 669

   Repelling Arc Furnace, Von Schlegel, 13

Resistance, Electrical, of the Human Body, Measurements, 123 Rivet Heater, Electric, New Type, 459 Salford Electrical Extensions Scheme, 13 San Joaquin River, California, Increased Power from, 293 Separators in Secondary Batteries, Improved Type Invented, T. A. Willard, 349 Ships, Electric Drive for, H. K. Barrows, 237 Simla Roads, Experiment with Electric Vehicles, 263 Smelting Works, Electric, for South Africa, 293 Spain, Distribution of Energy, National System Proposed, 459 Static Electricity Trouble in Textile Factory, 123 Steam-electric Plant, 125,000,000-kilowatt in Victoria, 265 Storage Batteries, Creeping of Electrolyte, 433 Story of the Induction Motor, G. B. Lamme, 349

Supply Development Schemes, Increase, 123 Swiss Electrical Industry Prosperity, 123 Sydney, N.S.W., Controversy over New
   ~ Turbo-alternator, 265

Temperature of Rotors belonging to Alternators, Instrument for Measuring, 265 Thermostat, New Type, for Control of Electric Ovens and Heating Appliances, 293 Thermostatic Control in connection with Electric Heating, G. Wilkinson, 433 Thomson-Houston and General Electric Companies Combination in Spain, 151 Tientsin and Pekin Electrical Company Proposed, 643 Tokyo, Reported Amalgamation of Electric Power Works, 377 Turbo - generator, 10,000 - Kilowatt, for Uruguay, Varying Tenders for, 485 United States Increased Production of Electric Lamps, 377 Wallasey Power Station Breakdowns, Recommendations, 459 West Bromwich Electrical Plant Extensions, 179 West Riding Electricity District Meeting, 459 Worcester Joint Electricity District Formed, 43 Worksop, Proposed Extension of Supply, 543 Wye, and Electrical Energy, Application to. Commissioners, 543 Zinc Ore Treatment by Novel Electric Resistance Furnace, Professor C. H. Fulton, 13 ELECTRO-PLATING, Cadmium, 669 Engine, Gas, Exhaust, Utilisation of, 605 Ex-British Westinghouse Association, Annual

  Reunion, 361

Exhausts from Two-cycle and Four-cycle Engines, Temperature of, 643 EXHIBITIONS : Agricultural Machinery Exhibition at Brussels, 151 Agricultural Machinery Exhibition and Motor Tractor Trials in Spain, 86

Annual Agricultural Exhibition at Tours, 433 Basle, Fifth Swiss Trade Exhibition at, 349 Basle International Automobile Exhibition, 151

Efficiency Exhibition, Work of ex-Service Men, 179 Industrial and Agricultural Fair in Lemberg, 669 International Architecture Exhibition at

    Ghent, 43

International Building Trades’ Exhibition at Olympia, 364 International Centenary Exhibition at Lima, 569 Milan Sample Fair, 274 National Industrial Fair at Gothenburg, 643

 Netherlands East Indies Fair in Java, 83
 Orient Fair in Czecho-Slovakia, 440

Rangoon, Permanent Exhibitions to be Opened, 293 EXPLOSION of Large Cast Iron Drying Cylinder, 179 Ex-Service Men, Disabled, Training of, 179 Eye Magnet, Giant, for Metal Removal from Injured Eyes, 123

Fuel Consumption Trials at Le Mans, 619 Fuel Economy of Motor Cars, Tests, 71 Fuel Economy Trial, Motor Car, 274 Fuel for Motor Ship Free of Charge, 377 Fuel Oil, Fall in Price, 513 Furnace Collapse, Remarkable, on s.s. Baltriger, 619 G GAS for Domestic Use, Dangerous Percentage of Carbon Monoxide, 207 Gas Engine Exhaust, Utilisation of, 605 Gas-filled Electric Lamps, Increased Demand, 43 Gas Fittings Manufacture, Comparatively Prosperous Condition of, 543 Gas Undertakings, Coal and Gas Statistics, 433 Genoa, Port Extension on Large Scale Projected, 643 Geological Survey of Western Australia, Publications to Aid Miners, 513 German Boiler Explosions Increase, 97 German Cement for South Africa at Lower

  PricesthanBritish, Belgian and Pretorian, 237

German Competition in Hoisting Tackle Manufacture, 595 Germans and the British Magneto Trade, Unfair Competition, 97 Glass, Effect on, of Radium, X-rays, &c., J. R.

  Clarke, 595

Glass Factory on Island of Madeira, 485 Gold Belt, Rich, Discovery in Nigeria, 643 Gold and Other Metals Output of Ontario, 13 Gramophones, Small Motors for Driving, 459 Greenwich Observatory, Repair of Instruments and Installation of New, 663 H HANDLING Small Locomotives, Booklet by

  Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., 389

Harbour Improvement at Belize, 543 Havre-Paris Pipe Line Progress, 123 Highest Monolithic Structure Yet Built, 595 Hong Kong University, 191 Hot Water Centres during Fuel Shortage in

  Birmingham, 569

Hydro-electric Plant Nearing Completion in Ontario, 513 Hydro-electric Possibilities of Queensland, 178 Hydro-electrical Development in Java, 13 Hydro-electrical Development in New Zealand,

  13

I ICE-CLEARING from Water Power Plants and Effect of Use of Explosives, 349 Iceland, Proposals for Railway and Electric Development, 97 Imports into Sweden from Germany, 459 Indian Construction Company Floated at Bombay, 123 Industrial Administration, Institute of, First Annual Dinner, 277 Industrial Welfare Society Conference, 207 Insulation of Sound, Tests of Variously Built Walls, Professor F. R. Watson, 491 Ipswich and Dust Collection, 151 IRON AND STEEL : Amalgamation of Steel Companies in France? 405 Arc-fused Steel, Unfavourable Result of Examination by American Bureau of Standards, 13

  Austrian Duties on Iron and Steel, 595

Blast-furnace, New, Erected at Huangshi- kang, China, 43 Blast-furnaces in Lorraine, Diminished Number Working, 293 Bombay Manufacture of High Quality Steels, 669 Brazilian Government and Electrical Supply

  * for Iron and Steel Making, 669

British Columbia, Government Agreement with Steel Company, 405 British Columbia, Projected Large Steel Works, 377 Burma, Iron Ore Find, 207 Chilean Concession to German Firm for Iron and Steel Industry, 207

Combination of Large Companies in Japan, 43 Deoxidisers in Steel Making, G. F. Comstock, 643

Eastern Finland, Discovery of Iron Pyrites Deposit, 513 Electric Furnace for Iron Castings, 669 Ferro-chrome Alloy, Cheap and Rustless, by Electrical Production, 71 International Nickel Company’s 12,000,000- Dollar Plant, 97 Iron Foundry in Chungking, China, Projected, 433 Italian Inquiry into Iron and Steel Industry, 265 Krupp Works Rustless Steel, 237 Magnetic Iron Ore Discovery on the Russo- Ukrainian Border, 459 Magnetic Method of Finding Bubbles and Cracks in Steel, 377 Metallography of Low-carbon Steel, James Mitchell, 349 National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Annual Meeting and Appointments, 344 Output of Iron and Steel in the United Kingdom, Great Drop, 669

   “ Rustless ” Steel Again, 71, 97

- Steel Analysis, Strength of Solutions Used in Electrolytic Method of Determining, 485 Steel Demand and Use of Old Material, 669 Steel Ingot Production in the United States, Reduced Output, 595 Steel for Valves of Oil Engines, 179 Steel Works in America Compared with British, R. P. Smith, 543 Steel Works at Port Kemble, JSTew South Wales, 669 Swedish Ironworks’ Association Report, 151


J JAMES Keith and Blackman Company, Limited, Dinner to Directors and Management, 361 Japan, Telephone Service Extension and Improvement, 260 Japanese Government to Develop Coal Mining and Other Industries, 293 Japanese High-power Wireless Station near Peking, 467 Japanese Patent Laws, Revision of, 513 Java, Deepening of Sourabaya Harbour, 377 K KEITH, James, and Blackman Company, Dinner to Directors and Management, 361 Kelvin Medal, 1920, 135 Kelvin Medal Presentation to Dr. Unwin, 458 Kenya Colony, East Africa, Projected Sugar Plantation, 237 King George’s Dock,-Calcutta, Work Begun, 151 L LABOUR Ministry Appointment, 13 Laichikok, Hong Kong, Coaling Wharf and Oil- bunkering Appliances, 377 Lamps, Electric—see Electrical Matters Lamps, Large Incandescent, in the United States, 123 Lamps for Use on Board Ship, W. J. Jones, 543 Lead Caulking Recovered by Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe, 619 Leather Belts, How to Use, Buck and Hickman, Limited, 605 Lifting Magnets for Handling Metal Sheets, Major F. A. Hooper, 207 Light Measurement by Portable Meter, 97 Lightning Arresters, Information Sought as to Defective Operation, 543 Lightning Arresters, Investigation, 97 Liquid Air in Vacuum Flasks, Losses, &c., Professor H. Briggs, 433 Lloyd’s Register in Holland, 413 Lloyd’s Register Scholarships and Essay Competitions, 162 Lock, Patent, to Eclipse the “ Yale,” 459 Locomotives, Small, Booklet on Handling, Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., Limited, 389 Locust Destruction by Liquid Fire, 527 Lubricating Oil in Constant Service when Continuously Purified, 377 M MACHINE Tool Trades’ Association, Annual Meeting and Dinner, 55 Machine Tools in Australia, Large British Plant Suggested, 97 Magnesite Production in the United States, 543 Magnetos for Internal Combustion Engines,

 A. P. Young, 179

Manchuria, Establishment of Proper Communications Advised, 513 Manchuria, Harbour Construction on South Coast of, 513 Manufacturing Processes, Dangerous, List Extended by Home Secretary, 43 Metal and Mineral Output of South Australia, Increased Value of, 433 Metals, Failure of, under Internal or Prolonged Stress, Joint Discussion, 162—see also Associations Metals in Germany, Fall in Prices, 109 Metric System Obligatory in Japan, 459 Mica Deposits of Lomagundi, South Africa, 71 Microscale, Swedish Instrument for Minute Weighing, 265 Microscope, A Works, 471 Mine Managers and Surveyors, Postponement of Examinations for Certificates, 543 Mine Warnings by Evil-smelling Substance, 293 Mineral Output of New South Wales, Increased

  Value of, 321

Mineral Resources of Tsinanfu, Shantung, 643 Miners’ Lamps, Safety, &c., Committee Reappointed, 123 Miners’ Phthisis in Gold Mines, C. J. Gray, 459 Mining Record in South Africa, 619 Mint at Shanghai will be Largest in the World, 377 Molybdenum—see Iron and Steel Montevideo Harbour Extension, 43 Montreal Harbour, New Storage Warehouse, 459 Motor Car Engine, Waste Heat for Warming

  Body of the Car, 71

Motor Car Fuel Economy Trial, 274 Motor Car Hill-climbing Trials at Monaco, 349 Motor Car Imports into British India, United States Proportion nearly Three Times that of Great Britain, 43 Motor Car Racing, Disadvantage of Six and Eight-cylinder Engines, 513 Motor Car 1000-Miles Trial, Twenty-first Anniversary, 305 Motor Car Routes from the Congo to the Nile and to Lake Albert, 265 Motor Car which Won the Corsican Grand Prix, 513 Motor Fuels and Denaturation, Sir C. Bedford, 643 Motor Vehicles, Commercial, Parade of, 162 Motor Vehicles and Population in the United States, 619 Mysore, High-level Canal from River Cauvery Projected, 433


N NAILS, Bolts and Nuts Manufacture, Report on Trade Combinations, 543 “Natalite,” Experimental Consignment from South Africa, 543 Natural Gas in Mexico, Great Waste of, 207 Natural Gas and Petroleum Association of

 Canada, 216

New South Wales Manufactures, Statistics, 643 Niagara Falls, Power Increase Without Detriment to View, 71 Norway, Industrial and Economic Situation, Report on, 377 o OCEAN Exploration, Proposed Expedition for, 459 Oil Bore-hole for South Africa, 293 Oil Deposits, Enormous Unexplored, in Various Regions of Southern Mexico, 669 Oil Development in Alberta, Rush for Oil Leases, 71 Oil Development in Canada, Petroleum Find, Aeroplane Communication, 123 Oil Engines, Drott Surface Ignition, Tests by Belgian Colonial Army, 569 Oilfields of Northern Canada, 293 Oil Finds on the Mackenzie River, Proposed Investigation by Canadian Government, 71 Oil Fuel Storage Installations in the Argentine, 669 Oil Prospecting by Aeroplane in the Orinoco Wilderness, 619 Oil for Steam Turbines, Necessity for Keeping in Good Condition, C. H. Bromley, 543 Oil Storage Tanks, Large, Being Built at Durban, 179 Oil Wells at Baku, Soviet Concession to British Company, 569 Oils for Lubrication, Continuous Duration if Continuously Purified, 377 Old Centralians, 191 Optophone, Thermionic Amplifier Experiments to Increase Sound Volume, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 405 Omnibus, Six-wheeled, Paris Experiment, 485 Ontario Loan for Hydro-electric Power Commission, 669 Ovens for Coke-making, in 1841, 123 Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe for Boring Concrete, 595 Oxygen Manufacture for Engineering Use, Study of, at Harvard, 43 p PACKING Case, Thief-proof, 543 Paris Passenger Traffic, Congestion Increase, Proposed Underground Moving Pavement, 265 Patent Office Assistant Examiners, Competitive Examination, 445, 549 Patent Office Inefficiency in America, 43 Pearl, Instrument to Detect Difference between

 Japanese Culture and Real Pearl, 662

“ Penrol,” New Motor Car Fuel, 433 Peru, Nationalisation of Water Power, 321, 669 Petrol Consumption in Australia, 405 Petroleum Bore-hole in Boshof District, South Africa, 485, 595 Petroleum Boring in Leicestershire, Licence Granted, 71 Philippines Postal and Passenger Aeroplane Service, 377 Phosphorus Deposits on Uninhabited Island, 265 Photometers, Illumination, Increased Use of, 377 Platinum Production in British Columbia, 433 Platinum, Prospecting for, in View of High Prices, 619 Platinum, World’s Production of, 293 Plug, Bougiver Type, with Glass Insulator, 237 Polish Wireless Station, Very Large, to be Constructed by American Company, 265 Portland Cement Manufacture in Brazil, Proposed, 71, 151 Post Office Purchase of Trans-Atlantic Cable, 321 Power Plant near Melbourne and Fuel By-

  Products Recovery, 513

Presentations for Long Service, 629 Producer Gas, Bad Effect on Electric Machinery Windings, 179 Pulp and Paper Mill, 6,000,000-DoIlar, Projected for Prince George, B.C., 97 Pulpwood in Manitoba, Land for Sale on Conditions, 377


RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

 Accidents (continued):

Cambrian Railway Disaster at Abermule, 237, 265, 651

  Christmas and Accidents Record, 13

Coupling Failures and Accidents, Change in Regulations as to Reporting, 569 Fatal Accident, Rare Type of, on the North British Railway, 377 ; Report, 669

  Fatal Accident Statistics, 71
  Fatal Collision with Empty Coaches, 321

Fatal Passenger Train Accidents in this Country, Only Two in Nine Months, 377 Liverpool Overhead Railway Collision, Report, 511 London and South-Western Collision during Fog, near Vauxhall, 151 ; Report, 405

  London and South-Western Collision near
      Vauxhall, Report, 123

Lostock Junction Collision, Death of Another Passenger, 237 Paris-Orleans Railway Fatal Accidents, 543 Reports on Three Months’ Accidents, 207, 293

  Whitehouse Junction, Lancashire and
      Yorkshire Railway, Collision, Report, 66
 Acworth, Mr. W. M., Knighted, 97

Amalgamation of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway with the London and North- Western, Terms, 405 ; Previous Rejection of Similar Bill, 405 American Steam Locomotive Increased Export, 207 Apple Growing on Railway Embankments, Unfavourable Comment on Proposal, 513 Appointments and Staff Changes, 13, 43, 71, 97, 177, 179, 595, 643, 669 Argentine and Brazil as Markets for American Railway Material, 431 Armistice Railway Car to be Permanently Preserved in Paris, 485 Ashford Schools of the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 245 Automatic Signalling, English and American Claims to Invention, 237 Automatic Signalling on Mersey Railway Line, 319 Average Wagon Load, Highest on Record, 321 Baghdad Railway Ownership, 13 Belfast and County Down Railway, Capital Expenditure, 265 Bideford, Westward Ho ! and Appledore Railway, Rolling Stock to be Sold, 405 Bolivian Railway between Potosi and Sucre, 576 Bologna and Florence, Electrification of Line, 513 Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Survey for New Line, 595

Boonzaier T.U.V. Automatic Coupling, 286 Bridge Across the Yellow River, Plans, 71 Bridge, New, Over the Avon, Chippenham, 506

Bridges Over Railways and Omnibus Traffic, 669 British Railways and the Great War, Private Wagons Service, E. A. Pratt, 543 Brixton and Ludgate Hill Train Service Withdrawn, 321 Caledonian Railway, Eight-hour Day, Increase in Men and in Cost of Fuel, 293 Caledonian Railway Goods Brake Vans, Clayton Wagons, Limited, 151 Caine Branch Railway Bridge, New, near Chippenham, 506 Cambrian Railway Meeting and the Abermule Accident, 237 Cambrian Railway Takes Over Tanat Valley Light Railway, 377 Canadian Railways, Ownership and Finance, 542

Channel Tunnel Decision Delayed, 669
 Channel Tunnel or Train Ferries, 321

Cheap Tickets Issue Question to be Left to the Railway Companies, 433 Chilian and Argentine New Railway Construction, 123 Chinese Railway Single-line Working and Token Instruments, 321 Claims for Lost or Damaged Goods, Reduced Number of, at Paddington, 433 Coal Strikes and Railway Loss, 377 Colwyn Committee :

    Further Information Asked for, 43
    Report, 13
    Sir A. K. Butterworth’s Evidence, 71

Commercial Travellers’ Week-end Tickets, Suggested Revival, 349 Competitive Goods Traffic Allocation Ceases, 265 Concession to Season Ticket Holders during Restricted Train Service, 459 “Container” System and Pilfering from American Railways, 207 Cost of Material for Railways and Shipping, Enormous Rates Driving Huge Orders Abroad, 321

  Crewe Men, Past and Present, 417, 471

I Danish State Railways, New Steamer for Ferry, 123 Death of Engineman, and Workmen’s Compensation Act, 485

  Death of Mr. E. A. Bowden, 405
  Death of Mr. George Estall, 638
  Death of Mr. G. P. Neele, 13
  Death of Lord Terrington, 151

Denbighshire Transport Schemes and State Finance Question, 619 District and Associated Railways, Self supporting Basis Restored, 265 Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, and Coast Erosion, 409 Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, Escape from III Consequences of “ Munitions ” Strike, 293 Ealing and Shepherd’s Bush Extension, Poor Results, 293

  East London Railway’s Hard Caso, 179

Eastern Group of Railways, Suggested Further Inclusion, 207, 237 Electric Lighting of Railway Stations, New Method on the London and South-Western Railway, 569

  Electric Railway Training Film, 97
  Electrical Starting Signal, 237

Electric Traction on Railways, Lecture on its Advantages, Sir V. Raven, 179 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): Electrification of United Kingdom Railways, Delays Solely due to Finance, 522 Empty Rolling Stock, Waste irr Cost of Haulage, 513 English Railway Stockholders’ Protection Association, 179 Exceptional Rates and the Iron and Steel Trade, 669 Finland, Proposed New Railway in Ceded Territory, 207 First-class Compartments on the District Railway, Not to be Abolished, 13 Folkestone and Boulogne, Day Service Restored, 123 Freight Statistics, Four Weeks, and the Miners’ Strike, 123 Furness Railway’s Increased Passenger Traffic, 412 Furness Railway’s New Locomotives, 71 Funless Railway Scholarship, Conditions, 513 Furness Railway, Sunday Closing of some Stations, 122 Gauge, Break of, Device, Trial in Australia, 71 Gauge Conversion, Cost in Australia, 349 Gauge Disadvantages in Australia, 123 Gauge Question in South America, Difficulties Caused by Diversity, 43 German Locomotive Tenders for the Com- pania del Norte, 207 Glasgow and South-Western Railway Report, 237 Glasgow Subway Railway’s Heavy Loss on Working, 349 Glasgow Underground Electrification Declined on Account of Cost, 293 Goods Tonnage and Ton-miles in January, Reduction, 485 Goods Traffic by Road, Railway Companies’ Service, 179 Government Control, Date of Termination, 207 Great Eastern Engines Converted for Oil Firing, 569 Great Eastern Railway, Harwich-Antwerp New Steamer Malines, 71 Great Eastern Railway and the Railways Bill, 577 Great Eastern Railway, Steamers and Crane Cost, 179 Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Expected Large Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 207 Great Western Goods Train Working, Saving, 293 Great Western Point and Signal Levers, 123 Great Western Railway, Excursions and Fares Reduction, 433 Great Western Railway, Staff Training Scheme, 179 Grouping of Railways, Pros and Cons, 43, 207, 237, 265 Heavy Electric Traction, Co-operation with American Railway Engineering Association, 433 Holyhead, Work at, Parliamentary Sanction Required, 643 Hungary and State Railways, Electrification, 643 Indian Government Loan at 7 per cent., 459 Indian Railway Development and the Finance Question, 97 Indian Railways, Automatic Continuous Vacuum Brake Recommended on, 485 Ingot Mould Weighing over 87 Tons Carried by Rail, 543 Institutes and Institutions, Railway—see Associations, &c. Interlocking on Single-line Railways, 669 Irish Collieries’ War-time Railways, Successful Traffic, 293 Irish Railwaymen and “ Direct Action,” 13 Iron and Steel Trade and Exceptional Carriage Rates, 669 Italy’s Projected Electrification of 5000 Miles of Railways, 555 Japanese Government Railways, Electrification, 648 Japanese Imperial Government Railways, Gauge Question, 459 Krupps’ Successful Tender for Steel Wheels for Argentine Railways, 349 Lancashire and Yorkshire First-class Season Ticket Holders, 377 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Increase of Capital Expenditure, 459 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Sir E.

  Stockton and Hereditary Service, 179

Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company Ceases as a Carrier, Wages, Hours and the Trade Union, 433 Level Crossing for Two Vehicles a Week at a Weekly Cost of over £12, 293 Liverpool Committee on Question of Additional Passenger Facilities, 293 Locomotives and Wagons, New. and under Repair, 237 London and North-Western Engine Coaling Plant at Crewe, 377 London and North-Western Railway Chairmanship, 595 London and North-Western Work at Holyhead, Parliamentary Approval Necessary, 643 London and South-Western Electrical Services Traffic Statistics, 43 London and South-Western New Signalling Invention, 123 London Traffic Authority Bill Abandoned, 321 Lung-hai Railway Construction, Maritime Terminus and New Port Projected, 595 Melbourne Suburban Railways, Success of Partial Electrification, 595 Mersey Railway, Automatic Signalling on Line from Liverpool to Birkenhead, 319 Mersey Railway Company Fares Advance, 569 Metropolitan Railway Company’s New Well, 264 Midland Railway Express Trains Punctuality, 301 • Midland Railway, Increased Output of New and Repaired Rolling Stock, 265 Ministry of Transport’s Committee on Railway Companies’ Goods Traffic Road Service, 179 Ministry of Transport’s Figures as to Passenger Traffic, €69 National Union of Railwaymen. Decline in Membership, 543 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): New South Wales Railway Car Mileage, Suggested Increase to Effect Large Savings, 465 New South Wales Railways, Suggestions for Improvements and Economies Adopted, 349 North British Railway and Burntisland Harbour, 643 North British Railway Ferry Charges, 459 North British and Other Companies and the Ministry of Transport, Disputed Claims, 237, 293, 543, 595 North-Eastern Railway, Economies in View of Increased Cost, 293 North-Eastern Railway, Meeting to Consider Railways Bill, 543 North-Eastern Railway and Railway Grouping Scheme, 43, 207, 237 North-Eastern Wages Bill, Increase of 225 per Cent., 265 North Staffordshire Engines Fitted for Oil Fuel, 619 North Staffordshire Railway Bill, 542 North Staffordshire Railway’s Proposed

   Capital Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 293 Norwegian Government Concession for Electric Railway, 179

Oil Fuel on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 669 Passenger Fares and the Coal Strike, 538 Passenger Traffic Reduction Statistics, 669 Pekin and Hankow Railway, New Bridge, 71 Pekin-Hankow and Pekin—Pukow Railways’

  Connection, 643

Pekin New Railway Station, 543 Policy Proposed in White Paper, Men’s Joint Committee on, 97 Port Talbot Railways and Docks Company, Railway Business and Property Taken Over by Great Western, 433 Presentation to Mr. J. Rayner-Smith, 43 Pre-war Facilities, but at Post-war Prices, 619 Prince of Wales’ Train Derailment in Australia Due to Heavy Train, 349 Queensland Government Railways, Change in Administration, 513 Quick Method of Tickets Issue, 485 Quito, Ecuador, National Tramway Company Plans, 643 Rail Locomotive Parts from the United States, 349 Rails from Belgium £12 per Ton Against £23 at Home, 321 Rails, Steel, for the South Manchurian Railway, 459 Railway Benevolent Institution Funds, 151. 321 Railway Commissioners, New Appointment, 71 Railway Companies’ Claims and the Government, 543 Railway Companies and Trades Unions, New Agreement, 543 ; Further Discussion, 569 Railway Difficulties and Railwaymen’s Hours and Pay, 619 Railway Equipment Increasing Cost, 459 Railway Material Exports, Statistics, 182, 265, 377, 485, 619 Railway Operating Statistics, 123, 151, 179, 292, 330, 459, 485 Railway Returns for 1919. First Since the War, 237, 568 Railway Servants’ Pay, Sliding Scale, 97, 123, 377 Railway Staff and Unemployment, Question of Guaranteed Week, 97 Railway Stockholders’ Association and Sir Eric Geddes, 237 Railway Stockholders Outnumber Railway Employees, 433 Railway Track Ctfst and Motor Vehicle Immunity, 293 Railway and Tramway Traffic. Morning and

  Evening Hours’ Demands, 569

Railways Bill, Analysis of Voting, 595’ Railways Bill, Directors’ Views and Communication with Proprietors, 569 Railways Bill Introduction, 459, 543, 643 Railways Bill Postponement and End of Control, 433 Rates Advisory Committee, Fares, &c., 237 Rates Advisory Committee and Goods Classification, 43, 97, 237, 377 Rates Advisory Committee, Postponement of Public Meeting on Account of Present Crisis, 433, 569 Receipts and Expenditure for November, 1920, 71 Receipts and Expenditure for December, 1920, 349 Receipts and Expenditure for March, 1921, 512 Receipts and Expenditure for April, 643 Receipts and Expenditure for Twelve Months, 349 Reports of English Railway Companies, 179 Restricted Service Due to Coal Strike, 595 Richborough and the South-Eastern and

  Chatham Railway, 207

Road Traffic and Loss by Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 459 Road Traffic by Railways, 459 Rolling Stock Construction and Repair Statistics, 123, 619 Rolling Stock Expenditure by Two Railways, 459 Rubber Covering of Platforms Suggested to Reduce Noise, 669 Rumanian Railways and Working by French Group, 71 “ Safety First,” Awards to Drivers of Street Vehicles, 265 Scottish Coalowners’ Association and the Railway Question, 13 Scottish Railway Companies and English Amalgamation Tribunal, 569 Scottish Railway Stockholders’ Protection Association, Appeal, 485 Scottish Railway’s Increased Expenditure, 643 Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company Ceases to be a Carrier, 669 Signal-box Control of Railway Points, 651 Single-decker Omnibuses for Road Bridges over Railways, 669 Single-line Working not to be Abandoned, 321 South African Railways and Harbours,

  Failure in Courtesy of Staff, 513

South African Railways and Harbours, Finance Analysis, 433 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): South African Railways, Increase in Mileage and Traffic, 433 South African Railways, Useful Disposal of Timber Packing Material, 405 South African Reduction of Railway Rates for Bunker Coal, 459 South African Treatment of Light Railway Rolling Stock, 652 South-Eastern Railway, Holdings of Stock, Analysis, 207 South-Western Railway Delayed Electrification Due to Enormous Cost Increase, 293 Spanish Iron and Steel Syndicate for Supply of Wagons to Spanish Railways, 151 Spanish Railway Electric Installations, Contract for American Firms, 151 Spanish Railway Material Obtained from Germany, 151 Spanish Railway Wagons and Germany’s Successful Tender, 151 Spanish Railway Wagons Ordered from Spanish Firms, 321 Spanish Railways, Ownership Transference, 595 Standardisation of Wages, Anomalies, 349 Standardised Wages in Ireland as well as on British Lines, 293 Steam Rail Motor Cars Reduced to Four on the London and South-Western Railway, 466 Strikes and Wireless Telephony, 207 Suez Canal and Kantara Bridge Question, 513 Sunday Night Trains and Withdrawal of Sunday Postal Service, 643 Sunday Trains, Improved Service between Broad-street and Richmond, 432 Superannuation Allowances of Old Railway Servants, Increased Benefits, 349 Superheating on British Railways and Mr. O. Winder, 377 Swedish Locomotive Manufacturing Firm, Soviet Orders and Extension of Works, 179 Swiss Electrical Locomotives and Motor Coaches, 569 Swiss Railways, Nationalisation Question, 619 Tanat Valley Light Railway Taken Over by Cambrian Company, 377 Telegraph and Telephone Wire Mileage Maintained by Railways for Post Office Use, 265 Telescoping and Composition of Passenger Trains, 265 Three-cylinder Engines for Express Passenger Trains, 569 Tientsin— Pukow Railway Electric Plant, 595 Ton-mileage Figures for March, 669 Traffic Figures, Reduction in Passengers, 669 Traffic Increase between Bakerloo and

  London and North-Western Railway, 328 Traffic (Merchandise) Decline during March, 669

Traffic by Railway or Ship, Rates Question, 459 Traffic Statistics, Passengers and Passenger Receipts, 123 Train Alterations and Additions Postponed on Account of Coal Dispute, 643 Train Ferries as Alternative to Channel Tunnel, 321 Train Services, Improvement in, 643 Train Services, Passenger, Reduction, for Saving of Coal, 485 Transport, Passenger Traffic and Electric Power Demand, Arthur Watson on, 485 Triennial Census of Railway Servants, 404 Tunnel under the Thames to Connect Gravesend and Tilbury, Projected, 321 Unballasted Lines in Australia, Excessive Cost of Working, 71 United States Railways : Accident Inquiries, Disastrous Record, 123 Accidents Record, Improvement, 13 Accidents Record, Method of Reporting, 619 . American Railroad Wages Reduction, 643 Average Railway Receipts and Wholesale Prices in United States, 595 Baldwin Company’s Locomotive Output, 151 Boilers, Locomotive, Inspector’s Recommendation, 405 Congressional] Enquiry into Railway Finance, 513 Consolidation of Railways, U.S. Government Scheme, 64

  Death of Mr. George S. Rice, 151
  Electrification of Railways in America.
    Committee’s Conclusions, 595

Electrification of Railways, Committee’s Report, 569 Electrification of Railways and Industries between Boston and Washington, Investigation as to Economy, 97 Employees on the United States Railways, Numbers and Pay, 543 Expansion of Facilities for Traffic Movements, 265 Freight Traffic Greatly Diminished, 43, 207 Fruits and Vegetables and Freight Rates, 595 Labour and Inter-urban Railways, Disputes and Labour Board Decision, 71 Locomotive Export Association of New York City on United States Successful Competition for Orders, 349 New York Central, Terrible Collision near Chicago, 342 New York State and City, Transit Commission Appointed, 513 Pennsylvania, New York Terminus and Ferries Statistics, 71 Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburg Station and Public Thoroughfares, Wall Failure and Results, 151 Pennsylvania Railroad, Seventy-fifth Anniversary, 513 Private Operation of the United States Railways, Nine Months’ Remarkable Increases, 207 Rail Sections, Rolling, Needless Expense, 179 Rails Production in the United States, Details, 595 Railway Track Mileage, Great Decrease, 569 Railwaymen’s Conventions and Depressed Trade, 543 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

 United States Railways (continued):

Revenue Decrease, but no Change in Wages, Possible Inquiry, 465, 513 “ Safety First ” Reminder on the Chicago and North-Western Railroad, 513

    Salaries of Railway Officers in America, 643

Tickets or Payment in the Train, Company’s Action, 513

    Timber Bridge Replaced by Steel, 43

Tramcar Preferred to Rapid Transit Railways, 349

  Unjustifiable Complaints from Florida, 595 Victoria and New South Wales Delegation to United States, 669
 Victoria and New South Wales, Increase in
    I nter-traffic, 123

Victoria Station, District Railway, New Footbridge and Exit, 405 Victorian Government Railways’ New Type of Locomotive, 97 Victorian Government Railways’ Statement as to Increased Fares, 669 Victorian Government Railways’ Statistics, 43 Victorian Railways and Car Loading, 543 Wages and Fares, Railway, Finance on the

    Furness Railway, 405

Wagon, Privately Owned, Question of Abolition, 97 Welsh Railways and the Railways Bill Grouping, 619

 Whitsuntide and the Coal Dispute, 543
 Wireless on the Midland and London and

North-Western Railways for Railway Purposes only, 543

 Wireless Telephony and Railway Strikes, 207

RAIN Precipitation by Electro-static Influence, Experiments with Aeroplane, 405 Refrigerating Industry, Volume of Standard Ton in British Thermal Units, 43 Reservoirs near Poona, Land Compensation Question Unsettled, 569 Rest, One Day in Seven, in South African Mines, 97 Rice Straw for Power Alcohol, 643 Road 172 Miles Long Proposed between Canton and Kowloon, 595 Road Wheel, New, 527 Rock Drills, Pneumatic, Mechanical and Thermal Efficiency of, 71 “ Romance of Science,” Professor Sir W. H.

 Bragg, 321

Royal Agricultural Society Show, at Darby, 349 Royal College of Science, Royal School of Mines, City and Guilds (Engineering) College, Meteorological Lectures, Programme, 24 Rubber Industry in United States as Largest User of Electric Power, 97 Rugby Water—see Water Supply SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued) ?.

  Oil Fuel on the ss. Bismarck, 569
  Oil Tankers and other Steamers Built at
    Hong Kong, 13
  Olympic Oil Bunker Capacity Increased, 321
  Salvaged Vessel from the. Red Sea, 595

Self-propelled Steel Barges with Electrical Steering Gear, 433 Ship Loading Speed Record in Duluth Harbour, 293

  Shipyard at Vancouver Reopened, 151

Somersetshire, Steamship, Launched at Belfast, Complete Electrical Equipment, 293 South Australia and Shipbuilding, Launch of the Eurimbla, 485 Spanish Shipbuilding and Navigation Development, New Law, 485 Steamship Spaniel, Conversion as Cattlecarrying Boat, 454 Stranding of Steamer Blackhill, Bearings Obtained by Wireless during Fog, 97 Tank Steamer Repaired by Use of Outside Caisson, 13 Tug, Quaint Type, for New York State Canal, 569 SHORT-.STROKE Planers, Advantages over Shaping Machines, 543 Silver and Lead in the Yukon, 151 Silver-lead Mine at Cania, Central Queensland, 377 Sir John Cass Technical Institute, 308 Smart Work by a Middlesbrough Company, 569 Smugglers’ Armoured Car and Contents Captured in Flanders, 569 South African Imports and Exports, 43 South African Mining and Engineering Journal, Editor, 207 South African Road Bridges, Large Order to United Kingdom, 595 South Kensington Science Museum, New Catalogues, 405 Spain, Longest Motor Transport Line in the Country Opened, 433 Spanish Bill for Expenditure on Public Works, 543 Spanish Harbour Conditions, 405 Spanish Telephones and Swedish Manufacture, 619 Sparking Plug, New Type, 669 Standard—see also British Standard. Standardisation, Automobile, 642 Standardisation in Belgium, 43 Steam Engine, -Single-cylinder, Largest in Europe, 513 Steam Ferry Traffic between Sweden and Great Britain, 349 Steam Pipe Explosion Causes, 349 Steam Turbines, Pass-out, D. Brownlie, 179 Steel—see Iron and Steel Sulphite Pulp Mill, Finland, to Begin Work, 485 Sulphuric Acid Manufacture in the United States, 123 Sulphuric and Nitric Acid—see also Scientific Research Swansea as the Chief Oil Port of the United Kingdom, 619 Swedish Agricultural Machinery, Reduced Prices, 207 Sydney Harbour Bridge Proposal, Tenders to be Invited, 43 T TANK, Amphibious, Trials, 459 Taxation of Mechanically Propelled Road Vehicles, 179 Telephone Cable, Continental Trunk, 679 Telephone Rate Increase in New York, 349 Telephone Sentry-boxes for Motorists’ Night

  Use, 265

Telephones for Cuba, 8000 Ordered, 151 Telephones, Long-distance, Experiments in France, 619 Telephones in Sweden, Pre-eminent Position Claimed for, 71 Thornycroft’s London Staff Dinner, 159 Thunder and Gunfire, Accoustics Comparison,

  J. W. Humphreys, 643

Tides Utilisation as Motive Power in Hie et

  Vilaine, Experimental Work, 237

Tractor Trials, Successful, on Singapore Rubber

  Estate, 485

Tractors at Beersheba, Demonstration, 459 Tractors to Replace Coolie Labour, Suggestion, 485 Tractors in Western Canada, 595 Train Ferry, Anglo-Swedish, Proposed, 13 Train Ferry, Anglo-Swedish, Postponed, 459 Tungsten—see Iron Tunnel, New Vehicular, between New York and Jersey, Ventilation Experiments, 97 Turbine Lubrication and Oil Purifying, 377 Turbo-blower, Unusual Accident, 405 UNEMPLOYMENT on the Continent Daily Increasing, 151 United States Copper Export Association, 179 United States Electric Trucks in Commission, Great Increase in Number, 405 United States Shipping Material, Sale of, 513 University of London, University College, Lectures, 27, 232 ; Lectures by Professor Luigi Luiggi, 194, 232 University of Manchester, Lecture by Professor Einstein, 433 V i VALVES of Internal Combustion Engines, Heat Treatment for, 293 Vancouver, Increase in Cargo Handled at the Port, 265 Vancouver Island, Mineral-bearing Land Survey by Canadian Pacific Railway, 405 Venezuela, Commercial Museum in, 260 w WAGES Reduction in New York Shipyards, 293 Wagon, 12-Ton Standardisation Recommended, 440 Water Diversion from Lake Michigan, Proposed, Anticipated Effect on Level of St. Lawrence River, 569 Water Power Plant, Cost of, in New England, 237 Water Power of the St. Lawrence River, Latest

 Development Scheme, 669

WATER SUPPLY : Bombay Water Supply Department Inviting Various Tenders, 595 Chauny (Aisne) Drinking Wa ter and Drainage Plant Competition, 237 Cordoba Water Supply Improvement Scheme, 669

 Rand Pumping Scheme Plant, Tenders, 207

Rand Water Supply, Barrage across the Vaal River, 595 Rugby Water and Sewage Scheme for Clifton- on-Dunsmore, 216 Seattle, Additional Water Supply, 377 Specifications of Standard Water Pipes and Fittings, 224 ' Sydney Water Supply Extension, 349 Tampico, Mexico, Water Supply for, 433 WATER Tanks, Elevated, Reinforced Concrete’ Built in Germany, 207 Waygood-Otis, Limited, Patriotic Fund Winding-up,. 389 Welding, Acetylene, Success with a Long Steel Gas Pipe, 543 Well Sunk by Metropolitan Railway at Neasden, 264 West Bromwich goes a’ Borrowing, 619 West Kent Main Sewerage Board, New Plant, 97 Wheel, Road, New Form, Stagg Patent Wheel Company, 527 Wind Power, Improved Method for Utilisation of, 151 Wire Measurement, Difficulties in Obtaining Exact Results, 43 Wireless, Amateur, Installations in America and United Kingdom, 15] Wireless Equipped Motor Car for San Francisco, 485 Wireless Post Suggested on Willis Island, 643 Wireless Station for Belgium, to be Among Most Powerful in the World, 377 Wireless Station, Most Powerful in the World, First Stone Laid at Sainte Assise, 71 Wireless Station Plant at Port Elizabeth, 569 Wireless Station, Proposed, on Bank Premises, 293 Wireless Station at Shanghai, 513 Wireless Station at Tomiska, Japan, 97 Wireless Station at Warsaw, American Company to Erect, 349 Wireless Telegraph Station for Greenland, British and Danish Negotiations, 485 Wireless Telegraph Station on the Willis Islands, Investigation of Possibilities by Australian Government, 265, 321 Wireless Telegraphy in Life-saving at Sea, 349 Wireless Telegraphy for Railway Purposes, Successful Tests, 207 Wireless Telephone for American Motor Cars, 71 Wireless Telephone for Panama Railway Towing Vessels, 293 Wireless Telephony for Commercial Purposes, First Installation in United Kingdom, 377 Wireless, World’s Long-distance Record Broken, 405 Women’s Engineering Society :

 Loughborough Branch Started, 109
 Second Annual General Meeting, 581

Wood Preservation, Various Methods, 349 Wood Pulp Mill Started in Alaska, 433 Wooden Wedges in the Rand Mines, 642 Woosung, near Shanghai, Industrial District Development, 411 Wuchang as a Port on the Yangtze River, 643 X X-RAY Motor Ambulance Wagon, 595 Y YORKSHIRE Boiler Works, Visit and Lecture, 471 ZANZIBAR Harbour, Extensive Improvement, 207 Zanzibar Harbour Improvement Works, Cost of, 43 Zinc Ammonium Chloride in Galvanising to Replace Sal Ammoniac, 97 Zinc Ore Treatment by Novel Electric Resistance Furnce, Professor C. H. Fulton, 13

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